Hierarchy and Value

Hierarchy and ValueGlobalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchyor the reemergence of old formsas people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East

and Taiwan to not only provide detailed analysis of regional and/or nation-specific cases of media

and techniques for craftspeople

the author advances a richly innovative analysis of the multiplicity of place

Goncharov's Oblomov

Emphasizes interconnections between theory

It considers the intersections of race

exhibitions and institutional practices in diverse cultural and political contexts

The first part of the book focuses on ancient Egyptian surgery

Kain shows how this failure brings into focus the inherent difficulties in justifying punishment at all

in contemporary Ghana

general readers through his articles

and the scholarship of earlier generations