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Why Can’t the North Understand Africa?  

Francois Regis Mahieu ▪ Summer 1992

How are we to understand Africa? Via universal models or by cataloguing its particularities? The economic anthropology of Marshall Sahlins or Maurice Godelier, for example, has until now used specific behavioral patterns as a weapon against the universality of economic …



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