Cultural mobility : a manifesto /
"Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even tradit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice"--Provided by publisher |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780511658266 0511658265 0511656408 9780511656408 9780511654459 0511654456 9780511700415 0511700415 9780511656033 0511656033 9780511804663 0511804660 1107210143 9781107210141 1282466755 9781282466753 9786612466755 6612466758 0511657714 9780511657719 0511656955 9780511656958 |