Neither 'primitives' nor 'others,' but somehow not quite like 'Us': The fortunes of psychic unity and essentialism in Cchinese studies

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-252

  Brown, Miranda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

essentialism; Psychic unity; Sinology; unilineal evolutionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249152532     PISSN: 00224995     EISSN: 15685209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156852006777502054     Document Type: Review

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