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Peter Burke - Cultural Hybridity - 9780745646961 - V9780745646961
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Cultural Hybridity

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Description for Cultural Hybridity Hardback. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, 'Bollywood' films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena and others condemn them. This book considers these phenomena. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
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, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and Ien Ang, have engaged with hybridity in their work and sought to untangle ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646961
SKU
V9780745646961
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Peter Burke
Peter Burke, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, Cambridge University

Reviews for Cultural Hybridity
"Would work extremely well in world or European history courses at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level." European History Quarterly "[K]nowledgeable and informative." Times Literary Supplement "The book's easy and discursive style makes it accessible to the widest readership without losing out on complexity and intellectual rigour." Sociology "Burke shows how [questions of hybridity] raise ... Read more

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