Cultural identity and global process /

Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Friedman, Jonathan
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1994.
Subjects:	Culture. Group identity. Postmodernism > Social aspects. Civilization, Modern > 20th century. Ethnology > Philosophy. Civilization, Modern > 20th century Social Identification Culture group identity. culture note. culture (concept) Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9781848609129 1848609124 9781446222195 1446222195 0803986386 9780803986381 1283879980 9781283879989 0585366608 9780585366609
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

1. Toward a global anthropology
2. General historical and culturally specific properties of global systems
3. Civilizational cycles and the history of primitivism
4. The emergence of the culture concept in anthropology
5. Culture, identity and world process
6. Cultural logics of the global system
7. Globalization and localization
8. History and the politics of identity
9. The political economy of elegance
10. Narcissism, roots and postmodernity
11. Global system, globalization and the parameters of modernity
12. Order and disorder in global systems.

Cultural identity and global process /

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