Siting Culture - The Shifting Anthropological Object (Paperback)

Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within global fields of relations.
So far, much of the analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a level of theoretical debate. Siting Culture argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mould the lives of people throughout the world. By examining the concept of culture through case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean it probes the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture.
Siting Culture will be essential reading to the many students of culture who are looking for ways of siting culture in the diffuse and complex theoretical space of present day anthropology.

eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415150019

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1997
Editors:	Kirsten Hastrup • Karen Fog Olwig
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-15002-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-415-15002-7
Barcode:	9780415150026

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