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1 Read (or skim) Chapter 6, "Identity and the Body", and then summarize in three or four sentences three theories of identity you find interesting. Then, describe someone you know and explain how their identity is formed according to the theories you summarized from the chapter.

2. Read (or skim) Chapter 7, "Identity and Community", and then summarize in three or four sentences a couple of ideas about community and its relationship to identity. Then, describe a community you are involved in and how that community provides you identity in ways described in the chapter-or do this in connection with someone you know.

3. Read (or skim) Chapter 9, "Globalization and Environment", and then summarize in three or four sentences a couple of ideas about space, place and globalization to popular culture. Then, describe how you or someone you know occupies space or place in ways that influence your or their cultural practices, or how globalization might do the same.

4. Read (or skim) Chapter 10, "Popular Culture in the 21st-Century", and then summarize in three or four sentences some of the features of contemporary popular culture described in the chapter. Finally, express in three or four sentences your opinion of the development of these developments in the 21st-Century world.

5. People say postmodernism is all about "the death of metanarratives." Using whatever resources you'd like - the internet, your textbook - define postmodernism and what this phrase about metanarratives means. Explain how this applies to your life in some way.