How Long to Read Transforming Modernity

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Modernity?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Transforming Modernity by Néstor García Canclini

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy—a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved. Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology—those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture.

How long is Transforming Modernity?

Transforming Modernity by Néstor García Canclini is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Modernity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Transforming Modernity aloud.

What Reading Level is Transforming Modernity?

Transforming Modernity is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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