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Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique

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Melford E. Spiro
Melford E. Spiro
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 759 - 780
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