David Berliner

Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

Übersetzer: Horsfall, Dominic

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Produktbeschreibung

Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Translated, Per
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781978815353
• ISBN-10: 1978815352
• Artikelnr.: 58622636

Autorenporträt

David Berliner is a professor of anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Between 2011 and 2015, he was co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Dominic Horsfall is a translator, editor and writer with a special focus on anthropology. He received his MA in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge and now lives and works in London.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Loss of Culture and the Desire to Transmit It Onward
Chapter 1: Transmission Impossible in West Africa
Chapter 2: UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, and Cultural Loss
Chapter 3: Toward the End of Societies?
Chapter 4: The Plastic Anthropologist
Conclusion: For a cultural and patrimonial diplomacy
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index