Losing Culture : : Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times / / David Berliner.
We’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Loss of Culture and the Desire to Transmit It Onward
- 1. Transmission Impossible in West Africa
- 2. UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, and Cultural Loss
- 3. Toward the End of Societies?
- 4. The Plastic Anthropologist
- Conclusion. For a Cultural and Patrimonial Diplomacy
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author