Download or read book Global Culture Island Identity written by Karen Fog Olwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

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Download or read book Global Culture Island Identity written by Karen Fog Olwig and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intercultural Mirrors written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity, the authors suggest that the view of us held by culturally different people provides an essential key to self-understanding and identity remodelling. The book aims at analysing intercultural experiences on a deeper level.

Download or read book Spaces of Global Cultures written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.

Download or read book Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds written by Dorothy Holland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.

Download or read book Global Culture written by Gordon Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Culture Globalization and the World System written by Anthony D. King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nation and Destination written by Jeffrey Sissons and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book East West Identities written by Kwok B. Chan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism, will be a viable option for constructing new or renewed global communities of migrants around the world. It is with these tools that migrants are best equipped to navigate the raging torrents of globalization in the new millennium of a post-postmodern era. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. It is in this spirit that this book should be read.

Download or read book Globalized Arts written by J. P. Singh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market? Film, music, television, and the performing arts enter the same networks of exchange as other industries, and the anxiety they produce informs a fascinating area of study for art, culture, and global politics. Focusing on the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression, J. P. Singh shows how, by integrating themselves into international markets, entertainment industries give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties and politics. With examples from Hollywood, Bollywood, French grand opera, Latin American television, West African music, postcolonial literature, and even the Thai sex trade, Singh cites not only the attempt to address cultural discomfort but also the effort to deny entertainment acts as cultural. He connects creative expression to clashes between national identities, and he details the effect of cultural policies, such as institutional patronage and economic incentives, on the making and incorporation of art into the global market. Ultimately, Singh shows how these issues affect the debates on cultural trade being waged by the World Trade Organization, UNESCO, and the developing world.

Download or read book Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands written by Victoria S. Lockwood and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insight into the major changes that are taking place in the context of increasing globalization in Pacific Island societies, the authors seek to "ground" globalization in concrete real life cases of communities that are dealing with specific processes of globalization and formulating their own responses in their own cultural terms. The case studies presented reflect the many different cultural contexts of island societies as they deal with: global politics, nation states, and ethnic conflict; global economic integration and transnationalism; evolving identities and cultural representations; changes in patterns of social and community relations; and increasing integration into global religions. For anyone interested in the effects of globalization on the peoples and cultures of the Pacific.

Download or read book Global Forces and Local Life Worlds written by Ulrike Schuerkens and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.

Download or read book Small Worlds Global Lives written by Russell King and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu.

Download or read book Small Islands Large Questions written by Karen Fog Olwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.

Download or read book Islands as Crossroads written by Tim Curtis and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together information on various disciplines from the three main island regions of the world - the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean - to explore the ways in which the peoples of small islands have lived, and continue to live, in their culturally diverse societies. Leading anthropologists, historians, economists, archaeologists and others provide information on the complexity and dynamics of societies in small island developing states. It reflects the outcomes of a UNESCO symposium held in the Seychelles in 2007.--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Diaspora Identity and Religion written by Carolin Alfonso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.