Whither multiculturalism? a politics of dissensus.(General)(Book Review)

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SAUNDERS, BARBARA & DAVID HALJAN (eds). Whither multiculturalism? a politics of dissensus. 307 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Leuven: Univ. Press, 2003. Price: [euro]30.00 (paper)

This book addresses one of the most important subjects which anthropologists of contemporary Western societies can and should tackle. Multiculturalism is the accepted and most widely used designation for the form that cultural pluralism takes in those societies, and encapsulates the ideologies, policies, practices, and institutions which have been developed to accommodate the fact of diversity and ...

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