TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilkerson
TI  - Modalities Of Change
SN  - 9780857455680
U1  - 306.095 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropology  POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural SOCIAL SCIENCE General SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture Social change
N1  - index
N2  - 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
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