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Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local

Paperback • 1993

Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local

By Daniel. Grumiller

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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.<br>Several of the chapters are written by anthropologists who have specialised in material culture studies and who examine the new forms, especially televi...Show more

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9780415107891

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1993

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Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local

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