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Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe
Verena Stolcke
- pp 69-96
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In the contemporary debate concerning European integration and the "problem" of Third World immigration no less than in developments in anthropology in the past decade, the boundedness of cultures has been emphasized as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
In the contemporary debate concerning European integration and the “problem” of Third World immigration no less than in developments in anthropology in the past decade, the boundedness of cultures ...read more
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The Migration Industry and Civil Society: Polish Immigrants in the United Kingdom Before and After EU Enlargement
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Imagined communities and real victims : self-determination and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia
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Race and the culture of anthropology
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Creolization and Its Discontents
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Masyarakat adat, difference, and the limits of recognition in Indonesia's forest zone
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Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference
Akhil Gupta,James Ferguson +1 more
TL;DR: This assumed isomorphism of space, place, and culture results in some significant problems. as mentioned in this paper argues that differences between cultures come about not from their isolation from each other, but because of their connections with each other.