Holly Wardlow

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia (eBook, PDF)

Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change
Redaktion: Robbins, Joel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351886222
• Artikelnr.: 49354635

Autorenporträt

Joel Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada.