Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning by Hannerz, Ulf

Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231076234)

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Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning by Hannerz, Ulf

Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning

$40.00
Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning by Hannerz, Ulf

Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Ulf Hannerz
ISBN-10: 0231076231
ISBN-13: 9780231076234
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/1993
Pages: 347
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
By Ulf Hannerz
By Ulf Hannerz
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Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Stockholm.

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