ISBN:
9780803986381
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Identity and Global Process
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
`Friedman has produced a book of importance.... It features many tantalizing insights and observations in the author's attempt to comprehend the global constitution of the world and the "positional identities" - not least the identities of social scientists - within the global arena' - Theory, Culture & Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Toward a Global Anthropology; Chapter 2 - General Historical and Culturally Specific Properties of Global Systems; Chapter 3 - Civilizational Cycles and the History of Primitivism; Chapter 4 - The Emergence of the Culture Concept in Anthropology; Chapter 5 - Culture, Identity and World Process; Chapter 6 - Cultural Logics of the Global System; Chapter 7 - Globalization and Localization; Chapter 8 - History and the Politics of Identity; Chapter 9 - The Political Economy of Elegance; Chapter 10 - Narcissism, Roots and Postmodernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 - Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of ModernityChapter 12 - Order and Disorder in Global Systems; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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