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GREG URBAN
FOREWORD BY BENJAMIN LEE
Series: Public Worlds
Volume: 8
Copyright Date: 2001
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 336
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsmzx
Book Description:
From the Declaration of Independence to the movie Babe, from the Amazon River to the film studio, from microscopic studies of the words making up myths and books to the large-scale forces of conquest, conversion, and globalization that drive history, Urban follows the clues to a startling revelation: "metaculture" makes the modern, entrepreneurial form of culture possible. In Urban’s work we see how metaculture, in its relationship to newness, explains the peculiar shape of modern society and its institutions, from the prevalence of taste and choice to the processes of the public sphere, to the centrality of persuasion and hegemony within the nation._x000B_
eISBN: 978-0-8166-9304-7
Subjects: Anthropology