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Culture and Global Change
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Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.
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Index
Abbott, D. 242
Abegglen, J. 131
Abu-Lughod, J. 24
Ábuladze, T. 278
Adamson, P. 26, 90, 98
Africa 31; images of 104–107; sub-Saharan 63
Agence Free Presse 103
agency 2–3, 16
Agnelli, S. 216
agriculture: and labour migration 181; Tanzania 162; technology, poverty and 63, 64
aid 106, 107–108; imagery and 92–100
Airtours 254
Albrow, M. 153
alienation: from the environment 48; West Indian cricket fans 254–257
All-India films 270
Allen, R. 92
Allen, S. 214
Allen, T. 3, 46, 60, 152, 155, 261, 262; Alice Lakwena 163; Laropi village 59; Lugbara 228; Satyajit Ray 271–272; Somalia 5
Alleyne, G. 257, 259
Alliance for Progress 34
alliances, environmentalist 53–55
alternative communication 167–168
Alvares, C. 53
amenity view of the environment 48
American Anthropological Association 148
American Declaration of Independence 194
American Revolution 198
Amin, M. 91
Amnesty International 217
Anderson, B. 153
Anderson, M. 106
Anderson, M.B. 58, 59–60
Andrei Rublev 278
Angelico, Bishop Dom 169
Anthias, F. 154
anthropology 27–28; culture in 3, 13–15, 17; and development 5; and ethnicity 148–149, 151–152; and ethnicity in industrialised countries 153–155; research on female circumcision 208–209
Anwar, M. 154, 182
Appadurai, A. 24, 153
appeasement policy 140
Appleton, H. 63, 64
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Culture and global change: an introduction
- I: Culture and Development
- II: Questioning Cultural Assumptions
- III: Representations and Cultural Commodification
- IV: Culture as Explanation
- V: Culture and Resistance
- VI: Culture and Human Rights
- VII: Religion, Culture and Politics
- VIII: Culture as Product: Culture as Pleasure
- References
- Index