Knowing your place: rural identity and cultural hierarchy

Bringing together noted anthropologists and literary scholars, Knowing Your Place explores rural identity in a number of cultures and situations. Essays examine the distinction between popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the impact of environmental policy, the role of labor i...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Routledge 1997
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Bringing together noted anthropologists and literary scholars, Knowing Your Place explores rural identity in a number of cultures and situations. Essays examine the distinction between popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the impact of environmental policy, the role of labor in the global marketplace, museum representations, and postcolonial politics. Throughout, the essays address the many ways in which place identity alters and influences the experiences of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality.
Physical Description:VIII, 277 S.
ISBN:0415915449