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Cultural identity and global process /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Friedman, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1994.
Series:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.