01601nam a2200193 a 4500 38703 38703 vtls000000058 ES-BaOER 20180629133004.0 130626s1992 xxu|||||| 0|| ||eng|d 0231076231 (pbk) ES-BaOER cat ES-BaOER Hannerz, Ulf 60 Cultural complexity : studies in the social organization of meaning / Ulf Hannerz New York : Columbia University Press, cop. 1992 ix, 347 p. In 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. (Font: Editor) Preface -- I. Forms: 1. The Nature of Culture Today ; 2. Patterns of Process ; 3. A Network of Perspectives ; 4. Unfree Flow ; 5. Growth, Flux, Coherence -- II. Sites: 6. The Urban Swirl ; 7. The Global Ecumene -- Notes -- References -- Index MON 0 0 0 0 0 G CERC CERC S 2015-09-11 C 0 S 01982 1900000226 2015-09-11 00:00:00 1 2015-09-11 MON