The Culture of Strangers Globalization,

The Culture of Strangers explores the relationship between the development of commercial societies and cultural values.

G. Eric Hansen is Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College of California.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Permissions	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Primal World
Primal Immediacy	p. 27
Goods as Souls	p. 41
The Traditional World
Mediation in Hierarchy	p. 63
Exchange as Ritual	p. 79
The Civil World
The Exchange of Wills	p. 97
Commerce and Boundaries	p. 115
Homo Faber	p. 131
The Individual World
The Inexchangeable Self	p. 147
Work as Prayer	p. 163
Worlds in Transition: The Case of Japan
Selfless Capitalism?	p. 183
The Way of Wa	p. 201
Worlds in Contention: The Culture War
The Primal Confronts the Civil	p. 225
The Pseudoprimal and the Pseudotraditional	p. 253
Inventing a Traditional America	p. 271
Confronting the Naked Self	p. 307
Conclusion	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 357
About the Author	p. 375
Index	p. 377
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The Culture of Strangers Globalization, Localization and the Phenomenon of Exchange

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