Culture, Diversity and Heritage: Major Studies [[electronic resource] /] / by Lourdes Arizpe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483782903321
• Autore: Arizpe Lourdes
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-13811-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Collana: Texts and Protocols ; ; 12
• Disciplina: 303.48201
• Soggetti: International relations; Anthropology; Culture—Study and teaching; International Relations; Regional and Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Arbitrating Collective Dreams: Anthropology and the New Worlding -- The Ritual and the Promise: Why People Value Social Ritual -- Culture and Science -- The Intellectual History of Culture and Development Institutions -- Cultural Diversity as a Source of Creativity for Globalization -- How to Reconceptualize Intangible Cultural Heritage -- The Genealogy of Intangible Cultural Heritage -- Cultural Endowments at Risk in Induced Development -- Culture, Governance and Globalization -- Freedom of Choice, Democracy and the Zapatistas -- Equality of Vulnerability and Opportunity -- Convivencia: The Goal of Conviviability -- Freedom to Create -- Culture and Development: A Comparative Study of Beliefs.
• Sommario/riassunto: The texts presented in this book trace the rise of culture as a major concern for development, international diplomacy, sustainability and national politics over the past two decades. As a major participant in anthropological field research, advocate for cultural freedom and decision-maker in international programs on culture, the author gives a firsthand account of the trade-offs, the contradictions and the management of consensus in these fields. She argues that the ; constitutive, functional and instrumental aspects of cultural narratives call for a more in-depth understanding of knowledge, leading to cultural and social sustainability in the framework of a "new worlding". Many of the texts gathered here were presented at the United Nations General Assembly and other high-level international meetings. Most of the texts are unpublished; some were first published in Spanish and are now available in English for the first time.