Eric G. Hansen

Culture of Strangers

Globalization, Localization and the Phenomenon of Exchange

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Culture of Strangers explores the relationship between the development of commercial societies and cultural values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780761822059
• ISBN-10: 0761822054
• Artikelnr.: 22418498

Autorenporträt

G. Eric Hansen is Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Economics and Business Administration, St. Mary's College of California.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Permissions
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 The Primal World: Primal Immediacy
Chapter 5 Goods as Souls
Chapter 6 The Traditional World: Mediation in Hierarchy
Chapter 7 Exchange as Ritual
Chapter 8 The Civil World: The Exchange of Wills
Chapter 9 Commerce and Boundaries
Chapter 10 Homo Faber
Chapter 11 The Individual World: The Inexchangeable Self
Chapter 12 Work as Prayer
Chapter 13 Worlds in Transition: The Case of Japan: Selfless Capitalism?
Chapter 14 The Way of Wa
Chapter 15 Worlds in Contention: The Culture War: The Primal Confronts the
Civil
Chapter 16 The Pseudoprimal and the Pseudotraditional
Chapter 17 Inventing a Traditional America
Chapter 18 Confronting the Naked Self
Chapter 19 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Bibliography
Chapter 21 About the Author
Chapter 22 Index