Ethnicity, Inc.

Informationen zum Autor John L. Comaroff is the Harold W. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Both are honorary professors at the University of Cape Town. Together they have coauthored or coedited numerous books, including Of Revelation and Revolution , volumes 1 and 2, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination , Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism , and Law and Disorder in the Postcolony . Klappentext Exploring the changing relationship between culture and the market, this book addresses the question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? It offers an account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation - while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets of consumption. Zusammenfassung Exploring the changing relationship between culture and the market! this book addresses the question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? It offers an account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation - while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets of consumption.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Comaroff Jean, Comaroff John L.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780226114729
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11472-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General