Identity

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  • Francesco Remotti Université de Turin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.122

Keywords:

Substance, Social structure, Continuity, Change, Myth

Abstract

It is interesting to see how identity, avoided by Radcliffe-Brown and criticized by Lévi-Strauss, has entered the jargon of anthropologists since Malinowski. Is identity an indispensable tool for anthropologists or is it a myth from which we must distance ourselves? That is the question at hand.

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2019-12-19

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