ISSUES OF IDENTITY METAMORPHOSES IN TRANSITIONAL EPOCHS: SOCIAL CHANGES AND MENTAL EVOLUTION
On April 2021 was published a new book “ISSUES OF IDENTITY METAMORPHOSES IN TRANSITIONAL EPOCHS: SOCIAL CHANGES AND MENTAL EVOLUTION” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) under the aegis of International Academic Center of Neighborhood & Identity Studies.
Modern mankind today is experiencing one of the largest transitional periods in history: from local civilizations to global planetary space. The ambiguous processes of blurring economic, political and cultural lines bring the problem of collective and individual identity to the forefront of humanities research.
What metamorphoses does identity undergo in transitional periods of the past? How are socio-political processes linked with the evolution of mentality? These issues resolved in a wide chronological framework and geographical boundaries, are highlighted in this book. The articles show how one can identify the peculiarity of identification processes by analyzing diverse sources and using modern methodology.
The book is intended for a wide range of humanities scholars and readers interested in identity problems in historical retrospective, as far as it gives examples of real-life experience in transitional epochs, accompanied by the dynamics of the identity of both an individual person and social groups.