The Expediency of Culture
Subtitle: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780822331803
Subjects: Cultural studies; Popular Culture - General; Cultural policy; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Latin American Studies; Literary Studies/Criticism & T; Consumption (Economics); Culture; Globalization; Social aspects
First sentence: I argue in this book that the role of culture has expanded in an unprecedented way into the political and economic at the same time that conventional notions of culture largely have been emptied out.