A World Beyond Difference Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization |
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Author:
| Niezen, Ronald |
ISBN: | 978-1-4051-3710-2 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Book Format: | Digital download |
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Book Description:
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A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.
- Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences
- Interprets, criticizes, and...
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A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.
- Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences
- Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture
- Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner
- Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research