Anthropology, multiple modernities and the axial age debate

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 321-342

  Thomassen, Bjørn ^a  

^a American Academy in Rome   (Italy)

Author keywords

axial age; ecumenic age; liminality; modernity; multiple modernities; social theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650536990     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499610386659     Document Type: Review

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