Culture: How to Make It Work in a World of Hybrids - Paperback
by Michael H. Agar (Author)
Culture: How to Make It Work in a World of Hybrids offers a compelling and original way to think about promoting connections across human differences in our global society. This book provides a fresh vision for the core anthropological concept of "culture," one attuned to our contemporary global society where people receive hybrid cultural influences from many places in many ways.
Providing a stimulating look at one of the most basic topics in social science, it is written without academic jargon, is rich in humor, and is replete with provocative examples, making it accessible to undergraduate students in anthropology and other social sciences as well as to scholars and non-academic readers in fields where the fostering of intercultural (or, as this book argues, inter-hybrid)Michael Agar received his undergraduate degree from Stanford and his Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. An honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, NIH Career Award recipient, and former Fulbright Senior Specialist, he taught at several universities and worked at a number of research institutes over his lifetime. He was named professor emeritus of linguistics and anthropology at the University of Maryland in 1996. For the last decade, until his death in 2017, he worked independently as Ethknoworks, LLC, in Northern New Mexico.
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