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

by Simon Harrison

Book Overview

This book offers a counterintuitive and innovative approach to the politics of cultural difference and social order. The appeal of Harrison's argument is enhanced because he shows that currently dominant approaches to the politics of identity and difference are likely to be misguided, but does not resort to a wrongheaded appeal to universalism that simply collapses difference." - ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845450973
• ISBN13: 9781845450977
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"