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autochthonous

Europe could be dismissed out of hand because the answers to Africa and elsewhere lay within their autochthonous traditions.

—p.82 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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ambit

The general critique of cultural imperialism stays within a narrow ambit, because it is only the elite or the urban sections that have access to the symbolic and material items that enter the Third World

—p.81 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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sundered

described the world as being sundered between "two poles or extremes [...]"

—p.79 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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encomium

there is the encomium to Iranian women for their buried labors

—p.78 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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umbrage

The First World took umbrage at the creation of the UNCTAD.

—p.71 Buenos Aires (62) by Vijay Prashad
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