Cultural Mobility

A Manifesto

Stephen Greenblatt author Pál Nyíri author Heike Paul author Friederike Pannewick author Ines Zupanov author Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Oct '09

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This book offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage.Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.

ISBN: 9780521682206

Dimensions: 217mm x 138mm x 14mm

Weight: 400g

282 pages