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Comment: Interrogating the neo-pluralist orthodoxy in American Anthropology

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  1. Herzfeld (1991, p. 250, 2009, p. 129.

  2. Cartoon by Dioyenis Kamenos in Eleftherotypia [Athens newspaper], 11 June 2008, p. 9.

  3. See especially Malarney’s (1996) fine discussion of “state functionalism” in Vietnam; consider also the Durkheimian basis of Ziya Gökalp’s framing of Turkish nationalism and the Turkish constitution (on which see Spencer 1958).

  4. See Strathern (2000).

  5. See the special section of American Anthropologist (Sivaramakrishnan 2005), and see Scott (1998).

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Herzfeld, M. Comment: Interrogating the neo-pluralist orthodoxy in American Anthropology. Dialect Anthropol 32, 87–92 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-008-9050-0

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