One outcome of an increasingly connected world is the globalisation of the market for cultural goods. Consequently, social categories and concepts are transferred across cultural settings, often with scant regards for the processes by which they were originally produced. One, admittedly perverse effect of this process, is that in the societies that consume these cultural [ ]
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