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If anthropology is first and foremost an anthropology of the anthropology of others, it is because no society has solidly defined a “standard” set of (instituted and symbolised) relationships between generations, between elders and youths, between men and women, between allies, between lineages, between age groups, between free men and prisoners, natives and foreigners, etc. The primary task of the anthropologist is to sketch this map of identity and relative otherness (Augé, 1994: 10).This ...
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