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Record Nr.

UNINA9910976778503321

Autore

Hutterer Karl

Titolo

Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia : : Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography / / Karl L. Hutterer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2020

[s.l.] : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2020

ISBN

9780472127764

0472127764

9780891480136

0891480137

9780472901722

0472901729

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia

Classificazione

BUS069020SOC000000SOC008000

Soggetti

Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade

Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

Social Science

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals' consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United



States and "the rest." From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources-several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages-author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.