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Migrancy, Culture, Identity (A Comedia Book)

By Iain Chambers

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
9780415088015, 0415088011, 041508802X, 9780415088022, 9780203182093
LCC
JV6225 .C43 1994
Open Library ID
OL1400118M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2258717 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
176\173
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.

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