Globalization is a process of similarity and integration of human in the worldwide in influence of increasing and extension of information and communications technology, and  compaction of time and space, under guidance of democracy and domination discourse of neo liberalism. Globalization becomes a process of reshaping human life through globalizing certain values, which include economic patte...

Evidence for interactions between populations plays a prominent role in the reconstruction of historical and prehistoric human dynamics; these interactions are usually interpreted to reflect cultural practices or demographic processes. The sharp increase in long-distance transportation of lithic material between the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, for example, is seen as a manifestation of the c...

Echoing the New Democratic Revolution, “happiness” contains two meanings in Yan’an literature and art: the happiness of daily life and the happiness of the realization of the subjective value. Specifically speaking, the two meanings are supported by three interlocking narrative: The end of oppression, the beginning of happiness, the realization of subject. The arrival of a new society means the...

This paper analyses three important popular cultural manifestations in the struggle for Mexican-American identity: clothes, cars and music. The paper argues that from the 1940s all three have provided canvasses for the expression of Chicano cultural assertion and resistance, while provoking a range of negative reactions from the dominant Anglo-U.S. political culture. Although the Zoot Suited Pa...

This article explores the ways that hip hop musicians in Mexico City use their creative practice to perpetuate musical traditions associated with indigenous and national identity. Using the connected concepts of ‘cultural intimacy’ and ‘structural nostalgia’ it highlights how, while hip hop was explicitly used to critique Mexican neoliberalism, hip hop recording practices reflected some of the ...