1st Edition
Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local
Edited By Daniel Miller
Copyright 1995
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions that consumption either localises or fails to effect global forms and images. Several of the chapters are written by... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, D. Miller; Chapter 2 Inconsistent temporalities in a nation-space, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 3 Creating a culture of disillusionment, Caroline Humphrey; Chapter 4 Bureaucratic erasure, Bruce Kapferer; Chapter 5 Around a plantation, Jean-Pierre Warnier; Chapter 6 Learning to be local in Belize, Richard Wilk; Chapter 7 Global complexity and the simplicity of everyday life, Kajsa Ekholm-Friedman, Jonathan Friedman; Chapter 8 On soap opera, Veena Das; Chapter 9 The objects of soap opera, Lila Abu-Lughod; Chapter 10 Aboriginal art in a global context, Howard Morphy; Chapter 11 Traversing the global and the local, Karin Barber, Christopher Waterman;
Biography
Daniel Miller is Reader in Anthropology at University College London.
