Preface: Talking about Culture: Re-thinking the Popular
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Thinking about Culture and Development
Contents 1 Overview and introduction 1 2 What do we mean by development? 2 3 What do we mean by culture? 16 4 Summary 29
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عنوان ژورنال: Small Axe
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1534-6714
DOI: 10.1353/smx.2001.0004