"SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural." . . "Anthropology." . . "Kulturanthropologie." . . "Multiculturalisme." . . "Cultura." . . "Occidentalisation." . . "changement (sociologie) culture diversité globalisation (mondialisation) [congrès]" . . "Civilisation occidentale Congrès." . . . . "Knowledge, Theory of." . . "Antropología." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture." . . "Théorie de la connaissance." . . "Postmodernisme." . . "Anthropologie Philosophie Congrès." . . "Oxford <1993>" . . "Cultura Aspecto social." . . "Antropología cultural y social." . . "Kulturelle værdier" . . "Mondialisation." . . "Ethnologie Globalisierung Kongressbericht." . . "Culture Philosophie Congrès." . . "Globalisierung Ethnologie Kongressbericht." . . "Sociale aspecten." . . "Culture." . . "Internationalisatie." . . "Antropologia cultural e social." . . "Globalização." . . "Sozialanthropologie." . . "Anthropologie Philosophie." . . "Anthropologie - Philosophie." . "Civilisation occidentale." . . "Multiculturalisme Congrès." . . "Kulturanthropologie Kongressbericht." . . "Influence occidentale." . . "Multiculturalism." . . "Civilization, Western." . . "Postmodernism." . . "Wissen." . . "Connaissance, Théorie de la." . . "Kennis." . . "Aculturación." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Globalization is often described as the spread of western ulture to other parts of the world. How accurate id the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks , ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the persuasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere. Rather than assuming that the world is culturally diverse, the cahpters in this book propose that culture is itself a representation of the similarities and difference recognized between forms of social life. The authors address issues of globalization in terms of diverse histories and traditions of knowledge, which may include the construction of difference as cultural. The argument proceeds by four stages. Papers by Salmond and Hobart (dealing with Maori and Balinese examples) argue the need to reinstate the agency of knowledge and active 'local' subjects who are otherwise concieved as passive recipients of cultural globalization.; Palmie and Harris develop this argument (from the perspective of Cuba and Bolivia) by analysing the ways in which Latin American societies have been depicted as culturally creolized or syncretized. As Herzfeld and Parkin (Greece and Kenya) show, diversity is managed through the presuppositions people bring to bear on their situations - either essentializing the categories by which knowledge is organized or, conversley, reconizing the fluidity of these categories. Three comparative papers, by Howell, Vitebsky and Appadurai, end the volume with wide-ranging accounts of the dynamics of the diffusion of knowledge and the 'production of locality' in the contemporary world. In its attention to specific local situations, Counterworks argues that the apparent oppositioin between strong westernizing, globall forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be bounded, integrated and possessed of essential properties, needs rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's socail knowledge." . "Aufsatzsammlung" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . "Counterworks : managing the diversity of knowledge" . "Counterworks : managing the diversity of knowledge"@en . . . . . . . "Counterworks managing the diversity of knowledge" . "Counterworks managing the diversity of knowledge"@en . . . . . . . . "Ressources Internet" . . "Counterworks Managing the Diversity of Knowledge" . "Counterworks Managing the Diversity of Knowledge"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge."@en . . . . . . "culture globalisation (mondialisation) sciences sociales [congrès]" . . "Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Decennial Conference" . . "Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth Decennial Conference" . "Identidad cultural." . . "Globalisering, social forandring" . . "Sociologie de la connaissance." . . "Culture Philosophie." . . "Culture - Philosophie." . "Aufsatzsammlung." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy." . .