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Hardcover The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley Book

ISBN: 039458581X

ISBN13: 9780394585819

The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley

Ranging from the Abakwa Society to zydeco music, The Dictionary of Global Culture provides a vast survey of cultural subjects from all over the world - East Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Australasia, as well as Europe and North America. The book's more than 1,200 entries - on writers, musicians, deities, rulers, philosophies, literary forms - have been prepared by a team of regional experts from every part of the world,...

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Rated 5 stars
Syncretism, or the blending of cultural aspects

What is a griot? Who is Che Guevara? I didn't ask if you have heard of him--who hasn't--but can you describe his importance to cultural development? What are the Mari letters? Why are they important? Why is Ibn Rushd important? All these items and people belong to what is called global culture. With the internet and instant updating of information, we are now truly a global community. As a result, we must update our own mental...

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Wonderful Reference Tool

This book is a great reference book to get the basic idea of an important person, place, or philosophy. It really is a book of global culture. It has many important western references as well as non-western or non eurocentric references. I like to just open the book for a few minutes whenever I am sitting near the bookshelf and learn something new. Each entry is about a half a page on average. Some are less some...

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For those of us that didn't pay attention in History Class

This is my first time recommending a book and I couldn't have chose a better reference tool! As an American living in Europe, having never been intrigued by history, I often refer to this book during or after discussions as a fact checker. Highly recommended!

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informative, rewarding, educational, historical accounts

I read this book this summer and the insight I gained cannot be paralleled. This book gives detailed accounts of people, places, and events of major influence in our time and in history. No one should be allowed to call himself/herself "educated" until she/he has read this book. What a wonderful resource!

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