The Guinness Guide to Peoples and Cultures [antikvár]

PREFACE WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF RAPID SOCLAL AND CULTURAL CHANCE, IN which traditional peoples are fighting to preserve their ways of life while the inhabitants of the industrial world have access to an unprecedented variety of cultural experiences via their television screens and tourist holidays. Ideas and commodities are swept into an international maelstrom of circulation and exchange, while mUlions of individuals have to choose between staying in the places of their childhood or throwing themselves into the world's inigration streams to secure their livelihoods. The aim of this volume is to explore the diversity of humankind's social and cultural organization and account for the ways that people make sense of their world and locate themselves within it. It examines the perceptions of the natural world that underlie the use of resources and the transformation of the natural environment. How do people view themselves in relation to their physical landscapes and how have they adapted their ways of life to them? What cultural landscapes have they produced and how have they flUed them with meanings and associations? The historical processes of migration, conquest, and the mixing of peoples that has created today's cultural mosaics are identified. Few societies are culturally uniform, and in each the forces of social differentiation compete with the attempts by governments and dominant groups to forge common national identities. How do the passions of religion, language and ethnicity become translated into the political conflicts of the modem world? How does faith provide a sense of identity in a world increasingly dominated by the values of money? Can community still provide a sense of belonging in a world increasingly dominated by global processes? Finally, the tensions between modernization and tradition are considered. What impact does urbanization have on family life and the changing relationships between women and men, for example, and what effect does state control have on the lives of pastoral nomads, hunter-gatherers and other traditional cultures? The world is viewed not as a mosaic of isolated and self-enclosed peoples, but as a place of openness, movement and fascinating juxtapositions and connections. The notion of culture involved in this volume is one that embraces a diversity of meanings and practices, styles and forms, from art to soccer, local to global, and tradition to the newest forms of personal identity and expression. Each of us has to face the possibilities and challenges of placing ourselves in this world, in our families and settlements, our religious and linguistic communities, and our countries. This volume describes the rich variety of such cultural positions and identities. Dr Alisdair Rogers SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSnY OF OXFORD Village elders wearing red for mourning, Ghana Hindu faithful on the banl

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Cím: The Guinness Guide to Peoples and Cultures [antikvár]

Kiadó: Guinness Publishing Ltd.

Kötés: Fűzött keménykötés

ISBN: 0851127053

Méret: 240 mm x 310 mm

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