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This paintings offers an account of tradition in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected global, nationwide understandings of tradition became inadequate. He explores the consequences of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for validated notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not just engages with theoretical debates approximately tradition and globalization yet increases problems with how we expect and reside this day. His account of the adventure of worldwide tradition features a shouting fit in a brand new York highway approximately Salman Rushdie, a papal stopover at to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of international correspondents; and the unbelievable reviews of visitors in a global urban or on a Borneo picture safari.
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22 Nor may it be either entirely predictable or entirely unpredictable who will turn out to set meanings acquired from afar in local circulation. The bed-and-breakfast landlady in Connemara may be an ex-Londoner and the sister of a New Yorker, and still keep a fairly low profile; I suspect that those Swedish amateur photographers with their 700 slides from Borneo most likely will not. 29 3 WHEN CULTURE IS EVERYWHERE Reflections on a favorite concept Suddenly people seem to agree with us anthropologists; culture is everywhere.
They had seen just a few beggars and no drunkards in the entire trip. And not everything was unfamiliar. Danish beer was common, and taxis were cheap, although you had to settle the price with the driver before going. And in Kuching many people had wanted to talk about the ongoing European soccer championship, and had their particular favorite player on the Swedish team. Anyway, it had been nice to come home, and the first thing these two travelers did was to have a large glass of cold milk each.
At first encounter, we understand a foreign language with great difficulty, or more probably not at all. Moreover, if we are to learn it, it is likely to be a slow and probably laborious process. For quite some time, language has probably dominated our thinking about cultural boundaries, since it has coincided with notions of nation, and the active involvement in other symbolic modes – music, gesture, and others, and their combinations – has tended to be mainly confined to local, face-to-face settings.