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Title: Cultural Mobility
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Manifesto
Author: Friederike Pannewick, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, Stephen Greenblatt, Pál Nyíri, Ines Županov
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780521682206
ISBN: 9780521682206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Date: 29/10/2009
Description: Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 217mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Width: 14mm
Item Weight: 400g
Release Year: 2009

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