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By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative ...

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Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the ...

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany's - in shaping what eventually became the European ...

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of ...

At the turn of the millennium, Indian journalism has undergone significant changes. The rapid commercialization of the press, together with an increase ...