Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West by Simon Harrison

Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

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Simon Harrison

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology medium-paced

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Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms of difference. This study explores the implications of these constructs for Western understandi...

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