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Communication and the Globalization of Culture
Beyond Tradition and Borders
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2011
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Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment. Acknowledging widespread fears of cultural erosion at the hands of dominant global forces, Mohammed argues that what we understand as culture has always been the product of global forces, including those of trade and exchange. Our very conceptions of culture are questioned. The sanctity of tradition, religion, and heritage, the book suggests, should give way to an appreciation of the quite mundane origins of cultural artifacts, invented often as matters of political or social expedience, adopted sometimes in accidents of history and canonized by time into the catechisms of cultural belief.
Communication and the Globalization of Culture also suggests several mechanisms by which pragmatic social practices and fictional discourses make their way into the cultural beliefs and traditions of societies. Shaheed Nick Mohammed examines how the modern globalized environment gives rise to cultural practices that demonstrate cultural inventions, imagined communities, and manufactured cultural products, suggesting that such inventions and imaginations are not uniquely modern but rather a continuation of cultural inventions that long pre-date our media-globalized environment.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6651-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6652-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
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Preface No access
Introduction No access
1 Culture, Humankind, and Society No access Pages 1 - 6
2 The Birth of Culture No access Pages 7 - 24
3 Conquest, Imperialism, and Culture No access Pages 25 - 36
4 Neo-imperialism, Media, and Culture No access Pages 37 - 60
5 New Mythology, New Media, and the Globalization of Culture No access Pages 61 - 80
6 Corporate Domination of Cultural Product No access Pages 81 - 92
7 Cultural Erosion and Globalization No access Pages 93 - 100
8 Counterculture and Cultural Imaginations No access Pages 101 - 148
9 Long Live Culture? No access Pages 149 - 164
10 The Future of Culture No access Pages 165 - 170
