The Whole is a Part: Intercultural Politics of Order and Change

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 102-126

  Sahlins, Marshall ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

"Human Societies are Never Alone"; "National Cultures, Where are You?"; "something comparable to political spheres of influence"; Actually Existing Cultures; Elementary Forms of the Political Life; Galactic Dynamics of Culture in East Asia; Intercultural Dynamics of Order and Change; The Cultural Politics of Alterity: Depending on the Kingness of Strangers; The Real Politics of the Marvelous

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955488712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324426.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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