Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Difference, Ethnography and Theory

This paper critiques the theorisation of culture as difference that dominates Australian cultural studies and cultural anthropology. It argues that a perspective on culture that gets beyond current preoccupations with difference has more to be said for it than practitioners in either discipline have...

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Main Author: Eipper, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1998
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 1998, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 310-326
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