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Cultural Analysis in an Age of Globalization draws upon contemporary work in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory to analyze the rise of “speculative capital” and its role in a global shift from production-centered to circulation-centered capitalism.

About the author(s)

American scholar Benjamin Lee holds a PhD in Anthropology an MA in Human Development from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University. He was the founding director of the Center for Transcultural Studies in Chicago and was recently a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lee has written extensively on the anthropology and philosophy of language, literary theory, and global cultural studies.

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