Losing culture : nostalgia, heritage, and our accelerated times /

Losing culture : nostalgia, heritage, and our accelerated times /

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Author / Creator:	Berliner, David, author.
Uniform title:	Perdre sa culture. English
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Description:	vii, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cultural property -- Protection. Collective memory. Group identity. Cultural diplomacy. Anthropology. Anthropology. Collective memory. Cultural diplomacy. Cultural property -- Protection. Group identity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12406071

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Other authors / contributors:	Horsfall, Dominic, translator.
ISBN:	9781978815353 1978815352 9781978815360 1978815360 9781978815377
Notes:	Translation of: Perdre sa culture. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Many people talk about how we're "losing everything"--our culture, our traditions, our roots. As calls for cultural preservation multiply across the globe, anthropology teaches us that there are different ways of thinking about loss, memory, transmissions, and heritage. In this short book, translated from the French for the first time, David Berliner contemplates what the role of the anthropologist should be in a world obsessed with maintaining the past, while also rocketing toward the future"--

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Summary:	We're losing our culture... our heritage... our traditions... everything is being swept away. <br> <br> <br> <br> Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed?<br> <br> <br> <br> To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO experts have become self-appointed saviors of the nation's cultural heritage. He also embarks on a voyage of critical self-exploration, reflecting on how anthropologists handle their own sense of cultural alienation while becoming deeply embedded in other cultures. This leads into a larger examination of how and why we experience exonostalgia , a longing for vanished cultural heydays we never directly experienced.<br> <br> <br> <br> Losing Culture provides a nuanced analysis of these phenomena, addressing why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considering how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided or even reactionary. Blending anthropological theory with vivid case studies, this book teaches us how to appreciate the multitudes of different ways we might understand loss, memory, transmission, and heritage.
Item Description:	Translation of: Perdre sa culture.
Physical Description:	vii, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781978815353 1978815352 9781978815360 1978815360 9781978815377