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  • COUNTERWORKS
    RICHARD FARDON
    Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light o...

    $1,340.00

  • AFRICAN LANGUAGES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE
    RICHARD FARDON
    This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development ...

    $1,240.00

  • MARY DOUGLAS
    RICHARD FARDON
    This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, and the pervasive influence of her catholic faith on her writings before providing an analysis of two of her most influential works; Purity and Danger (1...

    $1,340.00