Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ’Backwaters’

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ’Backwaters’

Rodanthi Tzanelli

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2014
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9781138019867
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The book reconsiders definitional relationships of ’national character’ and ’national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries.

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