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Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits - Breidenbach, Joana, and Nyíri, Pál
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This engagingly written, jargon-free challenge to the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. Culture is too often understood as a straightjacket of values that make people act in a certain way. A more accurate and constructive approach is to see culture as a changing system of meaning, which individuals deploy selectively to make sense of the world. Pl Nyri is senior lecturer in ...

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Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits 2015, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295996752

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Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits 2009, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295989501

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