Jonathan Friedman Bücher

Merging materialist determinism with cultural and ideological perspectives, this influential work offers a nuanced understanding of social change through the ethnographic study of the Kachin in Burma. The new edition includes the original text, previously unpublished in North America, along with two related articles and a comprehensive introduction that contextualizes Friedman's theories within contemporary debates. This classic text is essential for scholars and advanced students in anthropology and related fields, impacting various disciplines including archaeology and Marxist theory.

The book provides an anthropological perspective on political correctness, emphasizing its role in shaping communication by prioritizing associations over content. It explores critical historical moments, particularly in Sweden, where new elites have sought to redefine social realities amid immigration and multiculturalism crises over the past thirty years. The author includes personal involvement in various cases and draws comparisons with international examples, offering a comprehensive understanding of the implications of political correctness in contemporary society.

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"Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts and historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of the world market and local cultural transformations, and demonstrates the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity." "Jonathan Friedman also documents the development and significance of a global perspective in an anthropology that illuminates a wide variety of domains from prehistory to world hegemony. In so doing, he interrogates the emergence of the concept of culture and suggests that anthropology itself is best understood within the trajectory of modernity."--Jacket