CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Alessandra Quartesan Monica Romis Francesco Lanzafame SEPTEMBER 2007 The Institutional Capacity and Finance Department (ICF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) developed this study on cultural industries in LAC. The study was conducted under the supervision of Francesco Lanzafame‚ Housing & Urban Development specialist‚ by Alessandra Quartesan‚ Urban Development and Cultural Heritage consultant
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Cultural heritage: Its relevance in the social development. Cultural heritage is the total of contributions by a community that are held to be legacy which is inherited by the past for the benefit of their future. This includes literature‚ buildings‚ monuments‚ artifacts and others. As what Edward Burnett Tylor (1871) said: “Culture is that complex whole which include knowledge‚ belief‚ arts‚ moral‚ law‚ custom and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” Cultural
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AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES Cultural studies refers to the notion that the study of cultural processes is theoretically and politically important to an active and productive understanding of the ways in which power and influence manifest themselves in social or political order. The historical roots of cultural studies mainly take us to Britain and its Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham. In Britain‚ cultural studies in the early days was marked by class‚ later by gender‚ race or
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Cross Cultural Perspectives ETH 316 October 13‚ 2014 Cross Cultural Perspectives Multi-national companies from the U.S. hold a great advantage by working in and with other countries and cultures to make their products accessible to a much broader community. When multi-nationals gains access into or with other companies/countries‚ it may be an assumption that because everyone inside the business is working for the same purpose‚ they are going to automatically communicate‚ think and look
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Cultural Revolution in China The Cultural Revolution in China was a social movement that took place in 1966 through 1976. This movement involved major changes that took place in the political‚ economic and social nature of China. These changes were very often for violent and corrupted means. This Cultural Revolution threatened China for 10 years. In the beginning of the revolution. “Destructive groups such as Red Guards and The Cultural Revolution Authority grasped the power‚ and China drove into
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Culture/Arts To define arts and culture all types of creative expression must be considered ranging from individual to collective and also from grassroots to institutional. Auckland Council. (2012). The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute believes that culture as a word has become enormously confused. The denotation of culture includes the following six fields yet many more do exist; Language which is and the most developed channel of expression and yet also the oldest human institution‚ Arts &
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The Cultural Revolution was a movement in China during1966-1976. This revolution was a power struggle within the Communist Party of China. This struggle grew to include large portions of Chinese society‚ which eventually brought the People’s Republic of China to the brink of civil war. The revolution was launched by Mao Zedong‚ the Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ in order to regain control after the Great Leap Forward. During the Great Leap Forward campaign Mao Zedong loss a significant
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Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues in Project Management Dennis G. Ballow‚ Sr.‚ MAED‚ PMP’ Project Management Knowledge Transfer‚ Inc. Abstract With hot topics like globalization and cross-cultural opportunities in the Asia Pacific rim‚ one might think it would be easy to research the implications of cross cultural issues. Rather‚ what the writer found was a significant discussion all around the periphery but little in-depth analysis. Discussion prevailed on the socio-economic and technological
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RUNNING HEAD: NEGOTIATIONS RUNNING HEAD: NEGOTIATIONS CROSS CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MS302-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR KAPLAN UNIVERSITY JULY 2‚ 2012 [Pick the date] Authored by: Andrea CROSS CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MS302-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR KAPLAN UNIVERSITY JULY 2‚ 2012 [Pick the date] Authored by: Andrea | ANDREA REED | | | | ANDREA REED | | | Cross Cultural Negotiations Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties exchange goods or
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Kolbe Cathedral Mao ’s Cultural Revolution Grade 10 After the collapse of China ’s Great Leap Forward‚ initiated by the Communist Party‚ Mao Zedong had lost a lot of momentum he had gained in the pursuit of his ideal nation. In an attempt to take back the control he once had in reforming China ’s political and economic policy‚ Mao launched the Cultural Revolution‚ a movement that intended to disintegrate Chinese
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