Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object Contributor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten (Editor), Olwig, Karen Fog (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415150027 ISBN-13: 9780415150026 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: The idea of culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade as the result of a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. But at the very same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized by anthropologists, the people they study are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities. "Siting Culture" argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mold the lives of people throughout the world. By examining the concept of culture through case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, it probes the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 301.01 |
LCCN: 96007492 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.54" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 328 pages |
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Publisher Description: Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within global fields of relations. |