The Future as Cultural Fact
Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | : Verso Trade |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9781844679836 |
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Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | : Verso Trade |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9781844679836 |
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Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1844679829 |
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years’ research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality. Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality. Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the “politics of hope” and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.
Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781452900063 |
Author | : Michael Minkov |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857246135 |
Explains the relationship between national culture and national differences in crucially important phenomena, such as speed of economic growth, murder rates, and educational achievement. This book also explains differences in suicide rates, road death tolls, female inequality, happiness, and a number of other phenomena.
Author | : Mark Pagel |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393065871 |
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Author | : Lawrence Grossberg |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822348306 |
Lawrence Grossberg, one of the most influential figures in cultural studies, assesses the mission of cultural studies as a discipline in the past, present and future
Author | : Arlene Goldbard |
Publisher | : New Village Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1613320760 |
An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories, rousing accounts, detailed observation and histories, Arlene Goldbard describes how communities express and develop themselves via the creative arts. This comprehensive, photographically-illustrated book, which covers community-based arts such as theater grounded in oral history and murals celebrating cultural heritage, will appeal to the curious non-specialist reader as well as the practitioner and student. Author Arlene Goldbard is one of the best-known authors on community cultural development. Her seminal books and essays are widely read in the US and other English-speaking countries -- among them, Community, Culture and Globalization and this book's antecedent, Creative Community.
Author | : Mateusz Laszczkowski |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785332570 |
Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Author | : Nadia Abu El-Haj |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008-06-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226002152 |
Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations. Boldly uncovering an Israel in which science and politics are mutually constituted, this book shows the ongoing role that archaeology plays in defining the past, present, and future of Palestine and Israel.
Author | : Stephen Bertman |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000-02-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
"Applying the metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to our national state of mind, Bertman offers a chilling prognosis for our country's future unless radical steps for recovery are taken. ... [He] looks beyond the classroom to the larger social forces that conspire to alienate Americans from their past: a materialistic creed that celebrates transience and disposability, and an electronic faith that worships the present to the exclusion of all other dimensions of time."--Jacket.