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Siting culture : the shifting anthropological object / edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Kirsten Hastrup.

By: Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-
Contributor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten
Language: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 1997.Description: vii, 319p. ; 22cm.ISBN: 0415150027
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Includes bibl. references. - Contents: I, Finding a place for culture. Cultural sites / K.F. Olwig; Imagining a place in the Andes / K. Paerregaard; Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian raï to the west / M. Schade-Poulson; Seeking place: capsized identities and contracted belongings among Sri Lankan Tamil refugees / A. - B. Steen Preis; II, The culture and politics of place. The nation as a human being: notes on the imminent collapse of Norwegian national identity / T. Hylland Eriksen; Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence / James Ferguson; The experience of displacement, Sri Lanka / B. Refslund Sorensen; Localizing the American dream: constructing Hawaiian homelands / U. Hasagar; Picturing and placing Constable country / J. Okely; III, Topical metaphors in anthropological thinking. Speechless emissaries / L.H. Malkki; "Roots" and "mosaic" in a Balkan border village / J. Schwartz; Simplifying complexity / Jonathan Friedman; There are no Indians in the Dominican Republic / N. Nyberg Sorensen.

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