In Migrancy; Culture; Identity; Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages; worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on todays world; from the realistic eye of the painter to the scientific approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and World Music. Migrancy; Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration; marginality and homelessness have disrupted the Wests faith in linear progress and rational thinking; undermining our knowledge; history and cultural identity.
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