Migrancy, Culture, Identity

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.

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Migrancy, Culture, Identity

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.

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Migrancy, Culture, Identity

Migrancy, Culture, Identity

by Iain Chambers
Migrancy, Culture, Identity

Migrancy, Culture, Identity

by Iain Chambers

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In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134881543
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/20/2008
Series: Comedia
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 850 KB

About the Author

Iain Chambers

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, 1 AN IMPOSSIBLE HOMECOMING, 2 MIGRANT LANDSCAPES, 3 THE AURAL WALK, 4 DESIRING MACHINES, 5 THE BROKEN WORLD: WHOSE CENTRE, WHOSE PERIPHERY?, 6 CITIES WITHOUT MAPS, 7 THE WOUND AND THE SHADOW, Bibliography, Index
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