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In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization.

This study analyzes the forces, processes and consequences of the formation of cultural boundaries in the age of global communication, and illuminates how communication, nation-states and cultural identities interact in the reconfiguration of these boundaries.