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Butterfly's sisters the Geisha in western culture / by Kawaguchi, Yoko

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Cultural chauvinism : intercultural communication and the politics of superiority / by Ibelema, Minabere, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Many Faces of Cultural Chauvinism -- Democracy is Western -- All Things Modern Are Western -- All Things Nefarious Are Non-Western -- The Hell of War Is Non-Western -- All Things Decadent Are Western -- Immodest Dressers and Desecraters -- Contention Not Confucian -- As Democracies Turn -- Dark History of Distinctions -- Who Civilized the Greeks That Civilized the West? …”
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The great discoveries and the first colonial empires. by Nowell, Charles E.

“…The Development of Western civilization; narrative essays in the history of our tradition from its origins in ancient Israel and Greece to the present…”

Interrogating human origins : decolonisation and the deep human past /

Table of Contents: “…Wells / John McNabb -- The temporality of humanity and the colonial landscape of the deep human past / Martin Porr -- The Far West from the Far East : decolonisation and human origins in East Asia : the legacy of 1937 and 1948 / Robin Dennell -- Interpretative shifts in understanding the prehistoric settlement of the Indian subcontinent : comparing Western and Indian historical perspectives / Parth R Chauhan -- Our earliest ancestors : human and non-human primates of North America / Paulette F Steeves -- "If we are all African, then I am nothing" : hominin evolution and the politics of identity in South Africa / Amanda Esterhuysen -- Naming the sacred ancestors : taxonomic reification and Pleistocene genomic narratives / Jonathan Marks -- Traditional owner participation in genetic research : a researcher perspective / Craig Muller and Joe Dortch.…”
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