Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development

✍ Scribed by William Ascher, John M. Heffron (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Rethinking Culture and Development....Pages 1-23
Normative Considerations in Promoting Cultural Preservation or Change....Pages 25-41
“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten”....Pages 43-66
Nationalism and the Politics of Language....Pages 67-79
Are Cultural Tensions “Cultural”?....Pages 81-111
Cultural Transition and Village Discourse in Twentieth-Century China....Pages 113-132
How Our Village Becomes “Ecocultural”....Pages 133-146
The “Ramlila Project”....Pages 147-167
Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural....Pages 169-182
Global Citizenship, Cultural Change, and Education Policy in Japan and New Zealand....Pages 183-201
Culture and Law on the Durand Line....Pages 203-232
Conclusions....Pages 233-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-263

✦ Subjects

Social Theory; Sociology, general; Demography; Human Geography; Cultural Studies

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