Cultural Change and Persistence

New Perspectives on Development

Buch | Softcover

263 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-03484-7 (ISBN)

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This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic development, whether the latter proceeds primarily from internal or external forces.

WILLIAM L. ASCHER Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College, USA. JOHN M. HEFFRON Professor of History and Associate Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of America, USA.

Cultural Change and Persistence in a Globalizing World: An Introduction; W.Ascher & J.M.Heffron Normative Considerations in Promoting Cultural Preservation or Change; W.Ascher 'Old Times There Are Not Forgotten': Southern Traditionalism and American National Development; J.M.Heffron Nationalism and the Politics of Language: Analogies from Europe for the Pacific Basin; J.C.Laursen Are Cultural Tensions 'Cultural'? Public Responses to Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Migration in the Russian Far East; M.Alexseev Cultural Transition and Village Discourse in Twentieth Century China; H.Li How Our Village Becomes 'Eco-cultural'? Change, Resilience, and Social Capital in Southwest China Minority Communities; Z.Yongming The Ramlila Project: Indian Identities in an Age of Globalization; N.Kumar Mexico, from Mestizo to Multicultural: Arts and Identity at the Turn of the Millennium; C.C.Chorba Global Citizenship, Cultural Change and Education Policy in Japan and New Zealand; L.Parmenter Culture and Law on the Durand Line: Antinomies of Continuity and Change; C.H.Norchi Conclusions: Intertwining Cultural Adaptation& Economic Development; W.Ascher & J.M.Heffron

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.9.2012
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 263 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-137-03484-X / 113703484X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-03484-7 / 9781137034847
Zustand	Neuware