Ivan Davidson Kalmar teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power, will be published by Routledge in 2011.
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Ivan Davidson Kalmar teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power, will be published by Routledge in 2011.