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2018, No. (11), Cultural History of Knowledge

Georges Balandier
The dynamics of traditionalism and modernity

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Keywords: traditionalism, modernity, social anthropology, historicity

Abstract:
Translation based on: G. Balandier, Anthropologie politique, PUF, Paris 2004, ch. VII: "Tradition et modernité", part II: "Dynamique du traditionalisme et de la modernité", pp. 202-217. The reprint was made with the consent of the Presses Universitaires de France.

About Author:
GEORGES BALANDIER (1920-2016) - sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist; Professor Université René Descartes, Paris-V, a member of the Center for African Studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.
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