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A World Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
A World Beyond Difference Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization Author:Ronald Niezen A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses. — * Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above al... more »l how we think politically about human cultural differences
* Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture
* Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner
* Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research« less