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Article: Portraits of 'Primitives': Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation. (General).
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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BLUM, SUSAN D. Portraits of 'primitives': ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation. xx, 235 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. [pounds sterling]18.95 (paper)
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