Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415915457 ISBN 13: 9780415915458

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.

The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and situations, and look at issues of contemporary interest. Topics covered include the uses of popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the social and economic impact of ecological policy, the role of labor in the global marketplace, museum curatorship, and post-colonial politics. Throughout, the essays address the many ways in which place identity alters and influences the experience of race, class, gender and ethnicity.

About this title

About the Author

Gerald Creed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Barbara Ching is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415915457
• ISBN 13: 9780415915458
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Ching Barbara, Creed Gerald W.