Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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$22.95 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674072909

Publication Date: 03/05/2013

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144 pages

4-3/8 x 7-1/8 inches

Belknap Press

World

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