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viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 and historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of the world market and local cultural transformations, and demonstrates the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity." "Jonathan Friedman also documents the development and significance of a global perspective in an anthropology that illuminates a wide variety of domains from prehistory to world hegemony. In so doing, he interrogates the emergence of the concept of culture and suggests that anthropology itself is best understood within the trajectory of modernity."--Jacket. |
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1. Toward a global anthropology -- 2. General historical and culturally specific properties of global systems -- 3. Civilizational cycles and the history of primitivism -- 4. The emergence of the culture concept in anthropology -- 5. Culture, identity and world process -- 6. Cultural logics of the global system -- 7. Globalization and localization -- 8. History and the politics of identity -- 9. The political economy of elegance -- 10. Narcissism, roots and postmodernity -- 11. Global system, globalization and the parameters of modernity -- 12. Order and disorder in global systems. |
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Culture.
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Group identity.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073
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Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00916143
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Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01073179
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Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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Cross-cultural studies.
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| Cover Title |
Cultural identity & global process |
| ISBN |
0803986378 |
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9780803986374 |
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0803986386 (pbk.) |
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9780803986381 (pbk.) |
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9781848609129 |
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9780803986381 |
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