Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development

by W. Ascher (Editor), J. Heffron (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230109148
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Contributors xiii

1 Rethinking Culture and Development: Patterns of Change and Persistence William Ascher John M. Heffron 1

2 Normative Considerations in Promoting Cultural Preservation or Change William Ascher 25

3 "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten": Southern Traditionalism and American National Development John M. Heffron 43

4 Nationalism and the Politics of Language: Analogies from Europe for the Pacific Basin John Christian Laursen 67

5 Are Cultural Tensions "Cultural"? Public Responses to Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Migration in the Russian Far East Mikhail Alexseev 81

6 Cultural Transition and Village Discourse in Twentieth-Century China Huaiyin Li 113

7 How Our Village Becomes "Ecocultural": Change, Resilience, and Social Capital in Southwest China Minority Communities Zhou Yongming 133

8 "The Ramlila Project": Indian Identities in an Age of Globalization Nita Kumar 147

9 Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural: Arts and Identity at the Turn of the Millennium Carrie C. Chorba 169

10 Global Citizenship, Cultural Change, and Education Policy in Japan and New Zealand Lynne Parmenter 183

11 Culture and Law on the Durand Line: Continuity and Change Charles H. Norchi 203

12 Conclusions: Intertwining Cultural Adaptation and Economic Development William Ascher John M. Heffron 233

Index 245

Editorial 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

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