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The first authoritative reference overview of global culture to emphasize the achievement of the non-Western world. Ranging from Abakwa Society to zydeco music, THE DICTIONARY OF GLOBAL CULTURE provides a vast survey of cultural subjects from all over the world - East Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Australasia,as well as Europe and North America. The book's more than 1,200 entries - on writers, musicians, deities, rulers, philosophers, literary forms - have been prepared by a team of regional experts from every part of the world.
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This reference overview of global culture emphasizes the achievement of the non-Western world. Ranging from the Abakwa Society to zydeco music, it provides a survey of cultural subjects from all over the world. It includes over 1200 entries on writers, musicians, deities, rulers and philosophers
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr is W.E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard. He is the author of Colored People published by Penguin.
Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies at Harvard.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140513132
- ISBN 13 9780140513134
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages736
- EditorGates Jr. Henry Louis, Appiah Kwame Anthony, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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