Cultural Hybridity

by Peter Burke

Book Overview

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips - recently voted the favourite dish in Britain - to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, "Bollywood" films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745646972
• ISBN13: 9780745646978
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.3"