Still Life

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How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing theworlds we share with others? In this provocative new book,Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh waythe interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather than beginning with abstract processes and flows, Moorestarts by analyzing the hopes, desires and satisfactions ofindividuals in their day-to-day lives. Drawing on a widerange of examples, from African initiation rituals to Japaneseanime, from sex in virtual worlds to Schubert songs, Moore developsa theory of the ethical imagination, exploring how ideas about thehuman subject, and its capacities for self-making and socialtransformation, form a basis for reconceptualizing the role andsignificance of culture in a global age. She shows how the ideas ofsocial analysts and ordinary people intertwine and diverge, andargues for an ethics of engagement based on an understanding of thehuman need to engage with cultural problems and seek socialchange. This innovative and challenging book is essential reading foranyone interested in the key debates about culture andglobalization in the contemporary world.

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Henrietta L. Moore

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Anthropologie Anthropologie / Globalisierung, Transnationalismus Anthropology Anthropology of Globalization/Transnationalism Sozialanthropologie

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"A provocative analysis of globalization from an anthropologicalperspective, rich in ethnographic cases from Africa to Japan to thevirtual world of the Second Life ... This is a timely volumethat will provide for valuable debates on epistemology inanthropology." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This ambitious and wide-ranging work draws together diversethreads of contemporary social and cultural thought. Its generousreadings of recent ethnography and social theory are noteworthy fortheir emphasis on inventiveness and hope, in contrast to the darkvisions that mark many familiar accounts ofglobalization." Webb Keane, University of Michigan "A very rich book, both in its challenging ideas and in thevivid ethnographic examples that help to ground these ideas. Mostwelcome is the plea for a more forward-looking notion of cultureand more interest in people's creativity as inspired by newtechnical and politico-economic developments. The book addressessome major new challenges for anthropology and social science ingeneral. Its originality and its masterful handling of a broadrange of theories and ethnographies make it a true source ofinspiration." Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
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