Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade.Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong.

Author: Nestor Garcia Canclini
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.92w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780816646685
ISBN10: 0816646686
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- History | Latin America | South America

About the Author
Christopher L. Chiappari is assistant professor of anthropology at St. Olaf College. Silvia L. Lopez is assistant professor of Spanish at Carleton College.Renato Rosaldo is professor of social science and chair of the department of anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis.