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Marcel Mauss Marcel Mauss
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From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Contemporary Pacific From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology, by Bruce M Knauft. Ann Arbor...anthropological imagination of Melanesia began with a view of primitive...lifeways. From Primitive to ...
From primitive to postcolooniial in Melanesian anthropology.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ...BRUCE M. From primitive to postcolooniial...Melanesian anthropology. x, 320...theory, in Melanesia and beyond...to identify Melanesia as a culture...under the postcolonial state. But...with the 'Melanesia' focus of...

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