Hybrids of Modernity

Part 1 INTRODUCTION: the world as exhibition The Global and the Local Ethnology of the Culturally Familiar Anthropology and Cultural Studies The Expo '92 Hybrids of Modernity. Part 2 ANTHROPOLOGY: CAN WE DO ANTHROPOLOGY WHEN CULTURE AND CONTEXT BECOME SELF-EVIDENT? Context and the Cultural Construct Context and interpretation at Expo '92 Auto-Anthropology: Contextualization as Interaction. Part 3 THE NATION STATE: Technologies of Nationhood The Nation State at expo '92 Cultural Difference in the Contemporary Nation State The European Community - an Icon for the Multicultural State Spain - The Multi-culturalism of a European Heartland The United Kingdom - Fighting Against Stereotypical Associations of State and Nation Hungary and Czechoslovakia: Problematizing the Link between State and nation Switzerland: The Nation/State Deconstructed The Globalization of the Nation State. Part 4 THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION - CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE: Invisible Techniques of Assistance for the Expression of Cultural forms Innovations and Improving Cultural Life Technology as Cultural Artefact Fujitsu The Informatics of Domination. Part 5 HYBRID SUBJECTS - CITIZENS AS CONSUMERS: On Consumption The American Spirit Home Knnowledge and Choice Consumption as Frustrated Desire Experience and Modernity Expo, Disney and the Welsh Garden Festival. Part 6 CONCLUSION: Cultural Process and Cultural Form Hybrid Institutions.

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