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By Marilyn Strathern

ISBN-10: 0415107946

ISBN-13: 9780415107945

ISBN-10: 0415107954

ISBN-13: 9780415107952

To feel anthropological research can shift among international and native views may perhaps indicate that the 2 co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of information. The evidence for this is often present in ethnographic bills the place contrasts are time and again drawn among the surrounding realm and way of life or in worth platforms which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in shifts among what relates to the final or to the particular.

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