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Cultural Complexity:

Studies in the Sociological Organization of Meaning
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Columbia University Press, 1992 - Social Science - 347 pages

A rich, witty, and accessible introduction to the anthropology of contemporary cultures, "Cultural Complexity" emphasizes that culture is organized in terms of states, markets, and movements. Hannerz pays special attention to the interplay between the centralizing agencies of culture, such as schools and media, and the decentering diversity of subcultures, and considers the special role of cities as the centers of cultural growth.

Hannerz discusses cultural process in small-scale societies, the concept of subcultures, and the economics and politics of culture. Finally, he presents the twentieth-century globalization of culture as a process of cultural diffusion, polycentralism, and local innovation, focusing on periods of intensive cultural productivity in Vienna, Calcutta, and San Francisco.

  

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Contents

The Nature of Culture Today
3
Patterns of Process
40
A Network of Perspectives
62
Unfree Flow
100
Growth Flux Coherence
126
The Urban Swirl
173
The Global Ecumene
217
Notes
269
References
303
Index
333
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About the author (1992)

Charles Gore is an artist and lecturer in the History of African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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