Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy - Softcover

 
9780415915458: Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy
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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.

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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.

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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.

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