When culture takes to the road, where does an anthropologist stand? In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, the author expresses concern about our moving picture world, never still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In a constantly changing global world, where the history of an entangled modernity is still an unending travelogue, how will cultural identities be recognized and translated? 40 b&w photos.
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When culture takes to the road, where does an anthropologist stand? In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, the author expresses concern about our moving picture world, never still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In a constantly changing global world, where the history of an entangled modernity is still an unending travelogue, how will cultural identities be recognized and translated? 40 b&w photos.
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