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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Cultural Complexity
• Author: Ulf Hannerz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 347
• EAN: 9780231076234
• ISBN: 0231076231
• ID: 04041721
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 496 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 1993

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