Counterworks (eBook, PDF)

Managing the Diversity of Knowledge
Redaktion: Fardon, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of "cultural" flow? In "Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere.
Rather than assuming that the world is culturally diverse, this book proposes that culture is itself a representation of the similarities and differences recognized between forms of social life. The authors address issues of globalization in terms of diverse histories and traditions of knowledge, which may include the construction of difference as cultural.
In its attention to specific local situations, such as Bali, Cuba, Bolivia, Greece, Kenya and the Maoris in New Zealand, "Counterworks argues that the apparent opposition between strong westernizing, global forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be integrated and possessed of essential properties, need rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's social knowledge.
This book will have wide appeal to anthropologists, to students of comparative studies in history, religion and language, and to anyone interested in the phenomenon of postmodernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134840816
• Artikelnr.: 43074061

Autorenporträt

Richard Fardon is Reader in West African Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Chairman of the Centre of African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Richard Fardon
Chapter 1 Introduction, Richard Fardon
Chapter 2 Self and other in contemporary anthropology, Anne Salmond
Chapter 3 As I lay laughing, Mark Hobart
Chapter 4 Against syncretism, Stephan Palmié
Chapter 5 Knowing the past, Olivia Harris
Chapter 6 It takes one to know one, Michael Herzfeld
Chapter 7 Latticed knowledge, David Parkin
Chapter 8 Whose knowledge and whose power?, Signe Howell
Chapter 9 From cosmology to environmentalism, Piers Vitebsky
Chapter 10 The production of locality, Arjun Appadurai