Metaculture : how culture moves through the world / / Greg Urban ; foreword by Benjamin Lee
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| Autore: |
Urban Greg <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Metaculture : how culture moves through the world / / Greg Urban ; foreword by Benjamin Lee
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Culture |
| Social values | |
| Intercultural communication | |
| Civilization, Modern - Philosophy | |
| Tradition (Philosophy) | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The once and future thing -- In modern time -- This nation will rise up -- This is ridiculous -- The public eye -- Inability to foresee. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From the Declaration of Independence to the movie Babe, from the Amazon River to the film studio, from microscopic studies of the words making up myths and books to the large-scale forces of conquest, conversion, and globalization that drive history, Urban follows the clues to a startling revelation: ""metaculture"" makes the modern, entrepreneurial form of culture possible. In Urban's work we see how metaculture, in its relationship to newness, explains the peculiar shape of modern society and its institutions, from the prevalence of taste and choice to the processes of the public sphere, to |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Metaculture |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9304-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812935203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Public worlds ; ; v. 8.