A world beyond difference : cultural identity in the age of globalization /
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| Author / Creator: | Niezen, Ronald. |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004. |
| Description: | xii, 225 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5541003 |
| Summary: | A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.<br> Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences<br> Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture<br> Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner<br> Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 225 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405127376 1405126906 |
