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Record Nr.

UNINA9910655379403321

Autore

Seabrook Jeremy <1939->

Titolo

Consuming cultures : globalization and local lives / / Jeremy Seabrook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : New Internationalist, , 2004

ISBN

1-78026-004-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

303.4/82

Soggetti

Globalization - Social aspects

Multiculturalism

Intercultural communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: another sunrise What is global culture? The colonizing of hearts and minds When worlds collide The haunted labyrinths of the heart A history of global culture Globalization as imperialism Our cup is broken: the life and death of cultures Visions and despair: millennial cults Bearing witness: Kashmiri and Yiddish Arguments in favor of global culture Arguments against: the creation of global monoculture The gods, the Quechua and the Maasai Cultures of resistance The bankruptcy of the soul