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BL
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1015282
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b769652
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| Title & Author
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The end of tradition? /\ edited by Nezar AlSayyad.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2004.
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1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0203421337
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: 0203674790
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: 0415290406
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: 0415290414
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: 6610057702
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: 9780203421338
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: 9780203674796
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: 9780415290401
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: 9780415290418
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: 9786610057702
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0415290406
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0415290414
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-257) and index.
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| Contents
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The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs -- The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell -- Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy -- Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke -- The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer -- Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal -- Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller -- Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha -- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.
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| Abstract
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Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing.
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Globalization-- Political aspects.
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Globalization-- Social aspects.
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Tradition (Philosophy)
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Globalization-- Political aspects.
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Globalization-- Social aspects.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- General.
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Tradition (Philosophy)
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| Dewey Classification
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148
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B105.T7E53 2004eb
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| Added Entry
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AlSayyad, Nezar.
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