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Author | : Karen Fog Olwig |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2005-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135306133 |
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
Author | : Karen Fog |
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ISBN | : 9783718659128 |
Author | : Karen Fog Olwig |
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Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134644469 |
^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.
Author | : Dorothy Holland |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674005624 |
This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.
Author | : Gordon Mathews |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000 |
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ISBN | : 9780415206150 |
Author | : Anthony D. King |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Acculturation |
ISBN | : 9781452901534 |
Author | : Jeffrey Sissons |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789820201422 |
Author | : Elizabeth Mcmahon |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781785271892 |
Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.
Author | : J. P. Singh |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 023114718X |
Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market? Film, music, television, and the performing arts enter the same networks of exchange as other industries, and the anxiety they produce informs a fascinating area of study for art, culture, and global politics. Focusing on the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression, J. P. Singh shows how, by integrating themselves into international markets, entertainment industries give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties and politics. With examples from Hollywood, Bollywood, French grand opera, Latin American television, West African music, postcolonial literature, and even the Thai sex trade, Singh cites not only the attempt to address cultural discomfort but also the effort to deny entertainment acts as cultural. He connects creative expression to clashes between national identities, and he details the effect of cultural policies, such as institutional patronage and economic incentives, on the making and incorporation of art into the global market. Ultimately, Singh shows how these issues affect the debates on cultural trade being waged by the World Trade Organization, UNESCO, and the developing world.