Seeing Culture Everywhere - From Genocide to Consumer Habits

Informationen zum Autor Joana Breidenbach and Pal Nyiri Klappentext Joana Breidenbach , an independent anthropologist, journalist, and social entrepreneur who lives in Berlin, is author of Tanz der Kulturen (The dance of cultures) and coeditor (with Nyiri) of China Inside Out . Pal Nyiri is professor of history from an anthropological perspective at the Free University (VU) of Amsterdam. He is the author of Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority and Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia. Zusammenfassung Offers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing! not isolation! is the norm. This book contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of various kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent! laudable or despicable - and the unintended affects such mobilization invariably produces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Clashing Civilizations 2. Culture: Victim of or Obstacle to Development? 3. Culturalizing Violence 4. The Challenge of Multiculturalism 5. Protecting "Indigenous Culture" 6. The Age of "Cultural Competence" Conclusion: The Ethnographic Approach Notes Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Joana Breidenbach, Joana Nyiri Breidenbach, Pal Nyiri, Pál Nyíri
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2009
• EAN: 9780295989501
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98950-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Samuel and Althea Stroum Book; Seeing Culture Everywhere
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories