Name: Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning
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Author: Ulf Hannerz
ISBN: 9780231076234

portada Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Author

Ulf Hannerz

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

347

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0231076231

ISBN13

9780231076234

Synopsis "Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning"

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.

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