Losing Culture : Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times /

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We're losing our culture... our heritage... our traditions... everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berliner, David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Horsfall, Dominic (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Anthropology.
Collective memory.
Cultural diplomacy.
Cultural property > Protection.
Group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Anthropologist, cultural diplomacy, patrimonial diplomacy, Societies, UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, Cultural Loss, Transmission, West Africa, Losing Culture, Losing Heritage, Losing Traditions, West Virginia, David Berliner, Guinea-Conakry, cultural transmission, Case studies, memory, heritage, exonostalgia, nation's cultural heritage, self-appointed, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Race, Ethnic Studies, Philosophy, Critical, Social Theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Loss of Culture and the Desire to Transmit It Onward
  • 1. Transmission Impossible in West Africa
  • 2. UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, and Cultural Loss
  • 3. Toward the End of Societies?
  • 4. The Plastic Anthropologist
  • Conclusion. For a Cultural and Patrimonial Diplomacy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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