Cultural Identity and Global Process
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Cultural Identity and Global Process

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Cultural Identity and Global Process

About this book

This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture.

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. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural transformations, and demonstrates the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity.

Jonathan Friedman also documents the development and significance of a global perspective in an anthropology that illuminates a wide variety of domains from prehistory to world hegemony. In so doing, he interrogates the emergence of the concept of culture and suggests that anthropology itself is best understood within the trajectory of modernity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 - Toward a Global Anthropology
  5. Chapter 2 - General Historical and Culturally Specific Properties of Global Systems
  6. Chapter 3 - Civilizational Cycles and the History of Primitivism
  7. Chapter 4 - The Emergence of the Culture Concept in Anthropology
  8. Chapter 5 - Culture, Identity and World Process
  9. Chapter 6 - Cultural Logics of the Global System
  10. Chapter 7 - Globalization and Localization
  11. Chapter 8 - History and the Politics of Identity
  12. Chapter 9 - The Political Economy of Elegance
  13. Chapter 10 - Narcissism, Roots and Postmodernity
  14. Chapter 11 - Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity
  15. Chapter 12 - Order and Disorder in Global Systems
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index