Wilkerson <br/><br/>
Modalities Of Change 
Wilkerson 
 - New York  Berghahn Books,  2012 
 - xii, 284 pages :  ill :  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index 
<br/><br/> While in some cases modernity may dominate 'traditional' forms of expression, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can modify 'tradition' while still keeping it within its own bounds. Maintaining a strong and distinct cultural identity with the help of modernity helps representatives of that identity cope with the modern world more generally. By contrast, assimilation to a dominant culture marked as modern is clearly associated with not only the loss of a distinct identity, but also its specific forms of cultural expression. This book explores the consequence 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857455680 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology  POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural SOCIAL SCIENCE General SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture Social change
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.095  / WIL