Cultural Identity and Global Process
This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture.Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-912-9
- EAN: 9781848609129
- Produktnummer: 18391961
- Verlag: SAGE Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 16'120 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Jonathan Friedman is Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lund. He is co-editor (with Scott Lash) of Modernity and Identity (Blackwell, 1990).
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