Cultural complexity : studies in the social organization of meaning

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A rich, witty, and accessible introduction to the anthropology of contemporary cultures,Cultural Complexity emphasizes that culture is organized in terms of states, markets, and movements. Hannerz pays special attention to the interplay between the centralizing agencies of culture, such as schools and media, and the decentering diversity of subcultures, and considers the special role of cities as the centers of cultural growth. Hannerz discusses cultural process in small-scale societies, the concept of subcultures, and the economics and politics of culture. Finally, he presents the twentieth-century globalization of culture as a process of cultural diffusion, polycentralism, and local innovation, focusing on periods of intensive cultural productivity in Vienna, Calcutta, and San Francisco. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Ulf Hannerz

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

ix, 347 s.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c1992

Subjects

kultura

sociální struktura

subkultura

etnologie

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ISBN

0-231-07622-3
0-231-07623-1