Francesco Spagna

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Does anyone could suggest me recents works about Bengal Renaissance from an historical and/or anthropological perspective?

I'm using Ulf Hannerz's Cultural complexity (1992) as first source. Hannerz quotes the works of Poddar; Sinha; Sarkar; Sastri; Kopf; Nag; Mukhopadhyay; all in the period 1969-1979. Anybody is...

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Culture/counterculture: the latter simply identifies with the first?

…Or what kind of inner dynamic could be found between the two? I’m working on this borderline issue of Cultural Anthropology: a great help I am finding in the works of Michael Taussig, but any...

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Does anyone know of studies on the concept of Infinite from an anthropological point of view?

Metaphysical conceptions of the Infinite in particular cultures or in a cross-cultural perspective; interdisciplinary studies on this theme, between Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology.

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