CULANTH 191R - Globalizing Consumer Cultures

Institution:

Duke University

Subject:

Cultural Anthropology

Description:

The global spread of forms of consumer culture and their local appropriations, particularly the phenomenon of a globalizing middle-class culture and its local variations world wide. The historic emergence of a middle class in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The way local requirements for social respectability and "normalcy" are increasingly defined by the imagined lifestyles of average citizens in so-called first world countries. Instructor: Fehervary

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1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.DUKE.EDU

Phone Number:

(919) 684-8111

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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