In this age of global communication, local identities and
nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are
dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted
scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical
approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how
local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by
virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and
hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and
their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are
crossed, "In Search of Boundaries" transcends many traditional
dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between
tradition and modernity.
Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology,
anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not
focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with
a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the
liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the
Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding
of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and
identity.
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