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Cultural Change and Persistence

New Perspectives on Development

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Rethinking Culture and Development

    • William Ascher, John M. Heffron
    Pages 1-23
  3. “Old Times There Are Not Forgotten”

    • John M. Heffron
    Pages 43-66
  4. Nationalism and the Politics of Language

    • John Christian Laursen
    Pages 67-79
  5. Are Cultural Tensions “Cultural”?

    • Mikhail Alexseev
    Pages 81-111
  6. How Our Village Becomes “Ecocultural”

    • Zhou Yongming
    Pages 133-146
  7. The “Ramlila Project”

    • Nita Kumar
    Pages 147-167
  8. Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural

    • Carrie C. Chorba
    Pages 169-182
  9. Culture and Law on the Durand Line

    • Charles H. Norchi
    Pages 203-232
  10. Conclusions

    • William Ascher, John M. Hefron
    Pages 233-244
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 245-263

About this book

This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic development, whether the latter proceeds primarily from internal or external forces.

Reviews

"This work shrewdly and compellingly advances the important topic of culture and economic development, enriching efforts ranging from anthropology (e.g. Stephen Gudeman) to World Bank economists. The authors cut through and across older formulations, for example, in their useful comparison of globalization and modernization and in their suggestive correlations of cultural factors as inhibiting and energizing development. As one favoring analysis both contextualizing and generalizing, I recommend this book for both scholars and practitioners." - James Peacock, Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina and former president of the American Anthropological Association

Editors and Affiliations

  • Claremont McKenna College, USA

    William Ascher

  • Soka University of America, USA

    John M. Heffron

About the editors

WILLIAM L. ASCHER Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College, USA.
 
JOHN M. HEFFRON Professor of History and Associate Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of America, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Change and Persistence

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Development

  • Editors: William Ascher, John M. Heffron

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117334

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: William Ascher and John M. Heffron 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10914-8Published: 19 January 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03484-7Published: 11 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11733-4Published: 12 December 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Theory, Sociology, general, Demography, Human Geography, Cultural Studies

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