Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket

by Gordon Mathews

Book Overview

Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity?
Global Culture/Individual Identity focuses on three groups for whom the tension...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415206162
• ISBN13: 9780415206167
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"