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: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780822331681
Subjects: Cultural studies; History - General History; Cultural policy; Social Science; Sociology; Social aspects; Latin America - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Latin American Studies; Literary Studies/Criticism & T; Consumption (Economics); Archaeology; Culture; Globalization
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.