Syncretism in the Mediterranean: Universalism, Cultural Relativism and the Issue of the Mediterranean as a Cultural Area.
In this article we re-examine notions of relativism and universalism in the history of anthropology through a re-appraisal of anthropological research in the Mediterranean. In view of the fact of ongoing, public debates on how to bring about a new world order, we trace the notion of a clash of civil...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 309 - 333 |
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