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Cultural Identity and Global Process

By Jonathan Friedman

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1994
ISBN
0803986378, 9780803986374
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16145297 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society
Edition
1
Pages
288\280
Time added
2015-03-20 04:39:12

Description

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. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural

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