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Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere.
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Richard Fardon is Reader in West African Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Chairman of the Centre of African Studies, University of London.
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"The epistemological war against fixity, rootedness, bounds, binaries, essence, -isms, central authority, and grand narrative continues . . . among this lively assortment of ethnographer theorists. . . . [a] compelling book."
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 041510792X
- ISBN 13 9780415107921
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages244
- EditorFardon Richard
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