Primitiveness and the flight from modernity: Sociology and the avant-garde in inter-war France

Economy and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-28

  Kurasawa, Fuyuki ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Avant garde; Critique; French sociology; Modernity; Primitive

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0037294838     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0308514032000045744     Document Type: Article

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