Global Culture, Island Identity
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

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Global Culture, Island Identity
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

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Global Culture, Island Identity

Global Culture, Island Identity

by Karen Fog Olwig
Global Culture, Island Identity

Global Culture, Island Identity

by Karen Fog Olwig

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Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783718606245
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/09/1996
Series: Studies in Anthropology and History
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 PART I ENGLISH PATRIARCHAL HIERARCHY, AFRICAN BONDAGE; Chapter 1 Chapter One Africans in English Patriachy; Chapter 2 Chapter Two Afro-Caribbean Culture, Euro-Caribbean Institutions; Part 2 PART II IN PURSUIT OF RESPECTABILITY; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE The Methodist Society; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR In a Free Society; Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for Recognition; Part 3 PART III HOME IS WHERE YOU LEAVE IT: PARADOXES OF IDENTITY; Chapter 6 CHAPTER SIX The Demise of the Local: the background for a global community; Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN The Global Community; Chapter 8 CHAPTER EIGHT Global Culture, Island Identity; Chapter 9 CONCLUSION Toward an Anthropology of Cultural Complexity; References; Index;
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