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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814745503321

Autore

Friedman Jonathan

Titolo

Cultural identity and global process / / Jonathan Friedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1994

ISBN

0-8039-8638-6

1-283-87998-0

1-84860-912-4

0-585-36660-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture

Group identity

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Ethnology - Philosophy

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 (p.[254]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Toward a global anthropology 2. General historical and culturally specific properties of global systems 3. Civilizational cycles and the history of primitivism 4. The emergence of the culture concept in anthropology 5. Culture, identity and world process 6. Cultural logics of the global system 7. Globalization and localization 8. History and the politics of identity 9. The political economy of elegance 10. Narcissism, roots and postmodernity 11. Global system, globalization and the parameters of modernity 12. Order and disorder in global systems

Sommario/riassunto

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.