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In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism - the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive - produces a view of uncommon cultures; defined by relations of conflict rather tha In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism - the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and... Read More