Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge

by Richard Fardon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041510792X
• ISBN13: 9780415107921
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"