Identity
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https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.122Keywords:
Substance, Social structure, Continuity, Change, MythAbstract
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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