Exit

• Published in: Hybrid Cultures p. 264
• Main Author: Garcia Canclini, Nestor
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Minnesota Press 05.01.2006
• Edition: NED - New edition
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied arts; Architecture; Art exhibitions; Art galleries; Art genres and movements; Art history; Artisans; Arts; Arts participation; Behavioral sciences; Buildings; Commercial buildings; Communications; Crafts; Cultural anthropology; Cultural customs; Cultural groups; Cultural studies; Death rites; Decorative arts; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Funerary rituals; High culture; Journalism; Labor economics; Latin America; Mass communication; Mass media; News content; News media; Occupations; Popular culture; Postmodern art; Retail stores; Rites of passage; Rituals; Social sciences
• ISBN: 0816646686; 9780816646685

I did not want to leave my conclusions for the end and therefore maintained a constant interaction between the theoretical and the empirical. In part, the conclusions were presented in every chapter. But although I attempted to sketch a general movement, the crisis of the notion of totality and the unequal empirical implementation of the changes described in the Latin American countries, and within each one, imposes an avoidance of broad generalizations. Perhaps we could aspire to conclusions in the sense that the Council of the Ministers of Culture of the European Community does when it attempted to unify the