Virginia Dominguez

From Beijing to Port Moresby. The Politics of National Identity and Cultural Policies

Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9057005026
Number of pages: 402
Publishing Date: 1998-11-19
Branch: cultural policy & public administration
Category: book (hardcover)
 
Academics and cultural workers who seek to define or delimit the notion of "cultures" are confronted by the enormity of their task. The contributors to this book trace how "culture" functions in debates about national integration and identity, socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, tradition and modernity. Each contributor seeks to denaturalize discourses of culture and cultural policy and, in turn, represent culture as a social discourse and a shared social practice.
Essays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity. From small to large, young to old, former colony to former colonial power, these six examples do well to represent situated voices and cultural values meted out in a larger "global" space.


Hardcover: 404 pages

Routledge; 1 edition, October 1998


Further Information: http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/facpages/dominquez.htm

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