Global Culture/Individual Identity : Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket Hardback
by Gordon Mathews
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Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture.
Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs.
So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity?Global Culture/Individual Identity focuses on three groups for whom the tension between a particular national culture and the global cultural supermarket is especially acute: Japanese artists, American religious seekers and Hong Kong intellectuals after the handover to China.
These ethnographic case studies form the basis for a theory of culture which we can all see reflected in our own lives. Gordon Mathews opens up the complex and debated topics of globalization, culture and identity in a clear and lively style.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/03/2000
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- ISBN:9780415206150
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/03/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415206150