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Informationen zum Autor By Néstor García Canclini Klappentext Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy-a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved.Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology-those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture. Zusammenfassung An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsFrom the Primitive to the Popular: Theories about Inequality between CulturesIntroduction to the Study of Popular CulturesArtisanal Production as a Capitalist NecessityThe Fractured SocietyFrom the Market to the Boutique: When Crafts MigrateFiesta and History: To Celebrate, to Remember, to SellConclusion: Toward a Popular Culture in Small LettersNotesBibliographyIndexPhoto section, pages 48-54...
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Néstor García Canclini, who studied in Paris under Paul Ricoeur, is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México. Lidia Lozano has translated works by Enrique Semo, Lorenzo Meyer, and Isidro Morales, among others.
