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Culture, Diversity and Heritage: Major Studies

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Lourdes Arizpe

    1. Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • The author has been a major actor in international culture and social science programmes
  • The "cultural turn" in science and politics has placed culture at the center of development concerns
  • The texts were presented at the highest level of the United National and international science fora
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (BRIEFSPIONEER, volume 12)

Part of the book sub series: Texts and Protocols (BRIEFSTEXTS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Culture, Diversity and Heritage

    • Lourdes Arizpe
    Pages 1-11

  3. Culture, Knowledge and Diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 12-14
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    2. Arbitrating Collective Dreams: Anthropology and the New Worlding

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 15-29

    3. The Ritual and the Promise: Why People Value Social Ritual

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 30-45

    4. Culture and Science

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 46-57

    5. The Intellectual History of Culture and Development Institutions

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 58-81

    6. Cultural Diversity as a Source of Creativity for Globalization

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 83-90

  4. Reconfiguring Intangible Cultural Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-94
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    2. How to Reconceptualize Intangible Cultural Heritage

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 95-99

    3. The Genealogy of Intangible Cultural Heritage

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 100-117

    4. Cultural Endowments at Risk in Induced Development

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 118-135

  5. Influencing International Social and Cultural Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 136-138
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    2. Culture, Governance and Globalization

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 139-145

    3. Freedom of Choice, Democracy and the Zapatistas

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 146-156

    4. Equality of Vulnerability and Opportunity

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      Pages 157-164

    5. Convivencia: The Goal of Conviviability

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 165-167

    6. Freedom to Create

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 168-175

  6. Exploring Research Tools to Analyse Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 176-178
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    2. Culture and Development: A Comparative Study of Beliefs

      • Lourdes Arizpe
      Pages 179-192
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About this book

The texts presented in this book trace the rise of culture as a major concern for development, international diplomacy, sustainability and national politics over the past two decades. As a major participant in anthropological field research, advocate for cultural freedom and decision-maker in international programs on culture, the author gives a firsthand account of the trade-offs, the contradictions and the management of consensus in these fields. She argues that the constitutive, functional and instrumental aspects of cultural narratives call for a more in-depth understanding of knowledge, leading to cultural and social sustainability in the framework of a "new worlding". Many of the texts gathered here were presented at the United Nations General Assembly and other high-level international meetings. Most of the texts are unpublished; some were first published in Spanish and are now available in English for the first time.

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  • Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Lourdes Arizpe

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