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Gordon Mathews

Global Culture/Individual Identity

Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket

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Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity?Global Culture/Individual Identity focuses on three groups for whom the tension between a particular national culture and the global cultural supermarket is especially acute: Japanese artists, American religious seekers and Hong Kong intellectuals after the handover to China. The… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-415-20616-7
  • EAN: 9780415206167
  • Produktnummer: 1433454
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.4 cm 330 g
  • Gewicht: 330
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Gordon Mathews is associate professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the author of What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds.

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