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