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Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket
Contributor(s): Mathews, Gordon (Author)
ISBN: 0415206162     ISBN-13: 9780415206167
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $44.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2000
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Annotation: Gordon Mathews opens up the complex and debated topics of globalization, culture and identity in a clear and lively style. Focusing on the tension that can exist as individuals struggle to formulate their sense of cultural identity in the global cultural supermarket, this book will be an illuminating and valuable read for social and cultural anthropologists, their students, and the interested lay person.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306
LCCN: 99041333
Lexile Measure: 1340
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.48" W x 8.46" (0.63 lbs) 240 pages
 
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Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity?
Global Culture/Individual Identity focuses on three groups for whom the tension between a particular national culture and the global cultural supermarket is especially acute: Japanese artists, American religious seekers and Hong Kong intellectuals after the handover to China. These ethnographic case studies form the basis for a theory of culture which we can all see reflected in our own lives.
Gordon Mathews opens up the complex and debated topics of globalization, culture and identity in a clear and lively style.