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Metaculture : how culture moves through the world /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Public worlds ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 Urbans 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 sph |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816693047 0816693048 9780816638420 081663842X |