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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
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Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography
TL;DR: In this paper, an emergent methodological trend in anthropological research that concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic practices to more complex objects of study is surveyed, in terms of testing the limits of ethnography, attenuating the power of fieldwork, and losing the perspective of the subaltern.
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Consumer Culture Theory (Cct): Twenty Years of Research
TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesizing overview of consumer research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption is provided, with the aim of providing a viable disciplinary brand for this research tradition that we call consumer culture theory.
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Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences
TL;DR: In this paper, a historical tour d'horizon of the development of the notion of transnational communities is presented, showing that this mainstream concept has developed in close interaction with nationstate building pro- cesses in the West and the role that immigration and integration policies have played within them.
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The cultural politics of English as an international language
TL;DR: In this article, a critical pedagogy for teaching English as a worldly language is proposed, with a focus on the role of the classroom in the development of a world language.
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National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees
TL;DR: The authors examines the place of refugees in the national order of things and suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
TL;DR: One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political implications of this are as mentioned in this paper.
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Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
TL;DR: Time and the Other as discussed by the authors is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now," their objects of study are "there and then", and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own.
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Europe and the People Without History
TL;DR: This paper showed that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies, but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention, and asserted that anthropology must pay more attention to history.