Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives-anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural-the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an...
Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the art...
Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The authors critique the taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and the role of the arts in supporting or opposing the ideological work of government and non-government institutions. This innovative volume explores the challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and...
Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and ...
- Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common culture?
- What is distinctive and what is universal about everyday life in Australia?
In a post-colonial age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national 'identity' is increasingly urgent. This topical book traces the ways in which the Australian state and its people struggle to represent the social and cultural practices of everyday life in an attempt to draw meaning from diverse understandings of pasts, presents and...
- Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common c...
