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Fracturing Resemblances - Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West (Paperback)
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Fracturing Resemblances - Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West (Paperback)
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Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in
constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define
these in terms of difference. This study explores the implications
of these constructs for Western understanding of social order and
ethnic conflicts. Comparing them with the forms of cultural
identity characteristic of Melanesia as they have developed since
pre-colonial times, the author arrives at a surprising conclusion:
he argues that these kinds of identities are more properly and
adequately viewed as forms of disguised or denied resemblance, and
that it is these covert commonalities that give rise to, and
prolong, social divisions and conflicts between groups.
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