Complicating the concept of culture

Comparative Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 441-454

  Anderson Levitt, Kathryn M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; IDEOLOGY; POWER RELATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84873898859     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2011.634285     Document Type: Article

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