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Hybrid Cultures Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Néstor García Canclini |
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Examines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace—now with a new introduction! When it was originally published in 1995, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Néstor García Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to theoretical developments over the past decade. García 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 graffitti. 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. “This book displays some of the most provocative ideas in the field of cultural studies and offers important lessons for educators. It is a well-researched, rigorous, and well-written book, and for these reasons, the Latin American studies Association declared Hybrid Cultures the best book written about Latin America in Spanish of 1991-92.” —Comparative Education Review “Anyone wanting to begin to achieve this understanding will benefit greaty from entering Nestor Garcia Canclini’s Hybrid Cultures, be it by land, sea or air.” —Elizabeth Fox from Media and Development “A rare combination of breadth and detail is brought to bear on the relations between tradition and modernity, and between local cultural phenomena and globalising forces. The author’s cultural and theoretical range is extraordinary.” —Bulletin of Latin American Research Néstor García Canclini is director of the Program of Studies on Urban Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Christopher L. Chiappari is assistant professor of anthropology at St. Olaf College. Silvia L. López 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. 328 pages | 52 halftones, 7 line art | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | June 2005 |
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