Cultural identity and global process / / Jonathan Friedman

• Autore: Friedman Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Group identity; Postmodernism - Social aspects; Civilization, Modern - 20th century; Ethnology - Philosophy
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Cultural identity & global process
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural identity and global process
• ISBN: 0-8039-8638-6; 1-283-87998-0; 1-84860-912-4; 0-585-36660-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814745503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)