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Un/common cultures : racism and the rearticulation of cultural difference / Kamala Visweswaran.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2010 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Visweswaran, Kamala.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Race.
Culture.
Anthropology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (358 p.)
Other Title:
Uncommon cultures
Place of Publication:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A theoretical argument that anthropology has developed a concept of culture that reproduces some of the essentialisms of racism while making it difficult for the field to adequately address race.
Contents:
Wild west anthropology and the disciplining of gender
Race and the culture of anthropology
The interventions of culture : Claude Levi-Strauss and the internationalization of the modern concept of race
On Louis Dumont : is there a structural analysis of racism?
India in South Africa : counter-genealogies for a subaltern sociology
Legacies of culture, languages of the state
Gendered states : culture as a site of South Asian human-rights work.
Notes:
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613036216
9781283036214
1283036215
9780822391630
0822391635
OCLC:
660536811

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