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Anthropology, Social institutions, Culture, Ethnology, Weltausstellung (1992), Wereldtentoonstellingen, Minority Studies, Antropologie, Technologie, Expositions internationales, Natie, Sevilla, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Nation-state, Kulturanthropologie, Philosophy, Nation, Cultural, Exposición Universal de 1992 (Séville, Espagne), Expo 1992 Sevilla gnd, Nationalbewusstsein, Discrimination & Race Relations, Philosophie, Ethnologie, Institutions sociales, Exhibitions, Anthropologie, Nations, Culture noteShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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"Mitchell opens his book on 'the peculiar methods of order that characterize the modern West' with a reminder of the nature of a peculiarity prevalent in nineteenth century Europe: Middle Eastern visitors found Europeans a curios people, with an uncontainable eagerness to stand and stare."
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