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Europe and the People without History
William H. McNeill,Eric R. Wolf +1 more
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.
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The Social Life of Things
TL;DR: The authors examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past, focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations.
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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
Arun Agrawal,Clark C. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.
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Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization
TL;DR: This article argued that the defense of place by social movements might be constituted as a rallying point for both theory construction and political action, and argued that place-based struggles might be seen as multi-scale, network-oriented subaltern strategies of localization.
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Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
TL;DR: In this paper, L'A. etudie les effets de ce qu'il appelle le refus ethnographique concernant une serie d'etudes consacree a la resistance.
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The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective
TL;DR: Farriss and Reddy as discussed by the authors presented a cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff Part II, and two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport and William M. Cassanelli Part V.
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.
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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
Arun Agrawal,Clark C. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.
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Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization
TL;DR: This article argued that the defense of place by social movements might be constituted as a rallying point for both theory construction and political action, and argued that place-based struggles might be seen as multi-scale, network-oriented subaltern strategies of localization.
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The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning
TL;DR: The dialogical self as discussed by the authors proposes to conceive self and culture as a multiplicity of positions among which dialogical relationships can be established, in which collective voices, domination and asymmetry of social relations are paid to collective voices and embodied forms of dialogue.