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  • Anthropology
    anthropology
    / Culture and the humanities

    …the 1990s by the ā€œwriting against cultureā€ movement, which expressed misgivings about a common form of anthropological thought that imposed excessive and disadvantaging ā€œothernessā€ on the cultures and peoples studied. This movement implicitly reasserted the humanist universalism of anthropology and pointed up how other cultures were described in terms…

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    …the 1990s by the ā€œwriting against cultureā€ movement, which expressed misgivings about a common form of anthropological thought that imposed excessive and disadvantaging ā€œothernessā€ on the cultures and peoples studied. This movement implicitly reasserted the humanist universalism of anthropology and pointed up how other cultures were described in terms…

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