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This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption
within more general strategies of social self-definition. The
essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of
consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the
cultural strategies connected with it. The present volume focuses
upon the relation between consumption and culturally specific
strategies for self-definition, both on an individual and a group
basis. Many of the essays are explicit attempts to deal with the
complex articulation of modern commodities and "non-modern" modes
of appropriation. The papers reflect and engage recent developments
in anthropology such as the growing interest in personhood
expressed in the numerous works of cultural psychology, and an
increasing emphasis on the re-envisioning of culture as continually
constructed in socially differentiated practice. As such, these
papers deal with consumption as part of the practice of social
identity and the construction of culturally specific forms of life.
This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption
within more general strategies of social self-definition. The
essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of
consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the
cultural strategies connected with it. The present volume focuses
upon the relation between consumption and culturally specific
strategies for self-definition, both on an individual and a group
basis. Many of the essays are explicit attempts to deal with the
complex articulation of modern commodities and "non-modern" modes
of appropriation. The papers reflect and engage recent developments
in anthropology such as the growing interest in personhood
expressed in the numerous works of cultural psychology, and an
increasing emphasis on the re-envisioning of culture as continually
constructed in socially differentiated practice. As such, these
papers deal with consumption as part of the practice of social
identity and the construction of culturally specific forms of life.
This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so c-oordinated a study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system. Key areas covered include: · International Political Economy - Denemark · Archaeology - Jonathan Freidman · Economic development - Andre Gunder Frank · History - George Modelski · Sociology - Christopher Chase-Dunn eBook available with sample pages: 0203467701
No other volume offer so coordinated a picture of the issues of the prospects for the unified study of world system history. The kind of transdisciplinary cooperation needed to make sense of our complex world is made clear through the range of contributors' perspectives, Jonathan Freidman's archaeology to Andre Gunder Frank's economic development, George Modelski's history to Christopher Chase-Dunn's sociology. This extraordinary book shows that in order to understand contemporary issues we must study the long term history of the world system. It will be a vital overview of perspective on the history of the world system for all graduates and researcher in a variety of fields such as international political economy, world history and sociology.
Although the United States is currently the world's only military
and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not
last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of
U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book
addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic
rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several
chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern
world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize the contemporary
position and trajectory of the United States in the larger
world-system in comparison with the rise and decline of earlier
great powers, such as the Dutch and British empires. Contributors:
Kasja Ekholm, Johnny Persson, Norihisa Yamashita, Giovanni Arrighi,
Beverly Silver, Karen Barkey, Jonathan Friedman, Christopher
Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, John Rogers, Shoon Lio,
Thomas Reifer, Peter Taylor, Albert Bergesen, Omar Lizardo, Thomas
D. Hall.
Although the United States is currently the world's only military
and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not
last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of
U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book
addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic
rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several
chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern
world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize the contemporary
position and trajectory of the United States in the larger
world-system in comparison with the rise and decline of earlier
great powers, such as the Dutch and British empires. Contributors:
Kasja Ekholm, Johnny Persson, Norihisa Yamashita, Giovanni Arrighi,
Beverly Silver, Karen Barkey, Jonathan Friedman, Christopher
Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, John Rogers, Shoon Lio,
Thomas Reifer, Peter Taylor, Albert Bergesen, Omar Lizardo, Thomas
D. Hall.
The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an
important step in merging the materialist determinism of the
structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach
favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally
warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced
understanding of the various factors that drive social change and
social complexity. Though viewed through the lens of an
ethnographic and historical case study of the Kachin of Burman,
Friedman's theory has had a major impact on the work of
archaeologists, anthropologists, world-systems scholars, and
Marxist theorists alike. This new edition of Friedman's much-cited
work contains the full text of the original volume (never published
in North America) along with two related articles by the author,
and a comprehensive new introduction that brings his theoretical
notions, and the debate over this book, to the present. A classic
work of anthropological and social theory, it will be of interest
to scholars and their advanced students in anthropology and related
disciplines.
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the
phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon
of communication, in which associations in space and time take
precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at
specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites
attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the
last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics in
Sweden, the book examines cases, some in which the author was
himself involved, but also comparative material from other
countries.
The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one
apparently extraordinarily difficult to define. It often appears in
academic discourse and, especially, in the popular imagination as
an abstraction, usually nebulous, grasped as pervasive - a spectre
to be feared. In this book, distinguished scholars from around the
world take issue with this purported universality, exploring
alternative imaginings of the state, of power and of global
processes at the margins. Taking an anthropological perspective
based in diverse ethnographic contexts outside, or marginal to,
Europe and North America, if not beyond their controlling influence
in globalizing realities, this volume reveals different complexes
of power, as well as processes that are external to power and often
against it (contra Foucault, and as Pierre Clastres has famously
argued). The authors stress not only the different structures of
institutional power, but also the persistence or transmutation of
local kinds of power and their relevant cosmologies into
contemporary globalized settings. They find innovative kinds of
modernity, reconfigurations that have effects that cannot be
reduced to over-generalized and often intensely Eurocentric
concepts of power and the kinds of subjectivities realized by them.
In this, the volume opens up the diversity of experiences of the
state and offers new directions for its study.
Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished
anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of
global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider
numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be understood
within the contexts of global systems. Their multidisciplinary work
touches on many aspects of social and individual life as well as
long-term historical processes.
Diasporas have become a visible phenomenon of our world. Wherever
we go in the major metropolitan world centres, we run into not only
China and India "Towns", but we also witness the individual faces
of old and recent immigrants from a variety of other nations
flooding the airports, shopping centres and city parks. The impact
of these "worlds on the move" on globalisation, migration and
identity negotiations is the subject matter of this book.
The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million
civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of
genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the
visual arts in the form of documentary footage has aided
international efforts to document genocide and prosecute those
responsible, but this book argues that fictional representation
occupies an equally important and problematic place in the process
of shaping minds on the subject. Edited by two of the leading
experts in the field, The History of Genocide in Cinema analyzes
fictional and semi-fictional portrayals of genocide, focusing on,
amongst others, the repression of indigenous populations in
Australia, the genocide of Native Americans in the 19th century,
the Herero genocide, Armenia, the Holodomor (Stalin's policy of
starvation in Ukraine), the Nazi Holocaust, Nanking and Darfur.
Comprehensive and unique in its focus on fiction films, as opposed
to documentaries, The History of Genocide in Cinema is an essential
resource for students and researchers in the fields of cultural
history, holocaust studies and the history of film.
Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished
anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of
global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider
numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be understood
within the contexts of global systems. Their multidisciplinary work
touches on many aspects of social and individual life as well as
long-term historical processes.
In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two
distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have
shaped the emergence of our dynamic and often difficult and
contradictory modern world. The authors are particularly interested
in structures that link individual human beings to more general
social transformations. This book is a synthesis of the Friedmans'
decades-long anthropological research into the human
consequences-whether for good or bad-of globalization.
In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two
distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have
shaped the emergence of our dynamic and often difficult and
contradictory modern world. The authors are particularly interested
in structures that link individual human beings to more general
social transformations. This book is a synthesis of the Friedmans'
decades-long anthropological research into the human
consequences-whether for good or bad-of globalization.
Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a
compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness
that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they
investigate global processes and political forces that determine
networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic,
social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a
critical introduction, Friedman evaluates how transnational capital
represents a truly global force, but geographical decentralization
of accumulation still leads to declining state hegemony in some
areas and increasing hegemony in others. The authors examine the
growth and increasing autonomy of indigenous populations, and the
massively destabililizing effect of migration processes. They
describe the rapid increase in criminalization of ethnic and
immigrant groups as well as an increase in class stratification,
creating new forms of social confrontation and violence. In
addition to ethnic, identity-based conflict there are analyses of
transnational criminal networks, which also represents
disintegration of larger homogeneous territories or hierarchical
orders. The authors ask us to reevaluate the dynamics of
globalization the contradictions of centralization and
fragmentation around the world as we discover how best to transform
these conditions for the future. This research was originally
funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Globalization, the
State and Violence will be a valuable reference in anthropology,
social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic
conflict, immigration, and economic history.
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of
place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of
international capital. Arguing that specific places around the
world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in
the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment
options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development
that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the
local and the global, this work provides the first sustained
linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of
world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most
local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place
from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer
both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local
experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and
the diasporic phenomenon. The book will be an invaluable resource
and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and
identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the
production of place and identification.
" The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into
the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the
continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German
Jews and non-Jews. In the aftermath of World War II, many viewed
the Third Reich as an aberration in German history and laid blame
with Hitler and his followers. Since the 1960s, historians have
widened their focus, implicating "ordinary" Germans in the demise
of German Jewry. Jonathan Friedman addresses this issue by
investigation everyday relations between German Jews and their
Gentile neighbors. Friedman examines three German communities of
different sizes -- Frankfurt am Main, Giessen, and Geisenheim.
Symbolized by the Hessian heraldic lion, these communities
represent a cross-section of both Gentile and Jewish society in
Germany during the Weimar and Nazi years. Researching in the United
States, Germany, England, and Israel, he gleaned information from
interviews, memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, church and
synagogue records, censuses, government documents, and reports from
Nazi and resistance organizations. Friedman's comparative analysis
offers a balanced response to recent scholarly works condemning the
entire German people for their complicity in the Holocaust.
Drawing on ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Cultural Identity and Global Process analyzes the relations between the global and the local to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. Illustrating his thesis with examples from a variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts, and historical eras, Jonathan Friedman considers elements as disparate as the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification, and the Congolese internalization of modernity evidenced in beauty cults. Throughout his work, the author examines the interdependency of the world market and local cultural transformations, demonstrating the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity.
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