Karen Fog Olwig

Global Culture, Island Identity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by a notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasises the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the western world.
"Global Culture, Island Identity" looks at the development of cultural identity in the global context, using the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian community of Nevis has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture." The historical anthropological perspective offers new insight on global cultura

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135306120
• Artikelnr.: 39265687

Autorenporträt

Fog Olwig, Karen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 PART I ENGLISH PATRIARCHAL HIERARCHY, AFRICAN BONDAGE
Chapter 1 Chapter One Africans in English Patriachy
Chapter 2 Chapter Two Afro-Caribbean Culture, Euro-Caribbean Institutions
Part 2 PART II IN PURSUIT OF RESPECTABILITY
Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE The Methodist Society
Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR In a Free Society
Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for Recognition
Part 3 PART III HOME IS WHERE YOU LEAVE IT: PARADOXES OF IDENTITY
Chapter 6 CHAPTER SIX The Demise of the Local: the background for a global community
Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN The Global Community
Chapter 8 CHAPTER EIGHT Global Culture, Island Identity
Chapter 9 CONCLUSION Toward an Anthropology of Cultural Complexity
References
Index