Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourse, Counter-Tendencies and Violence
Editat de Alberto Arce, Norman Longen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 oct 1999
Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. Ethnography can show how people's own agency transforms, recasts and complicates the modernities they experience. The contributors argue that explanations of change framed in terms of the dominantdiscourses and institutions of modernity are inadequate, and that we give closer attention to discourses, images, beliefs and practices that run counter to these yet play a part in shaping them and giving them meaning.
Anthropology, Development and Modernities deals with the realities of people's everyday lives and dilemmas. It is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and development studies. It should also be read by all those actively involved in development work.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415204996
ISBN-10: 0415204992
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415204992
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateNotă biografică
Alberto Arce and Norman Long are both based in the Department of Sociology at Wageningen University in the the Netherlands. Alberto Arce's research focuses on agricultural and environmental issues. Norman Long has developed an actor-oriented and interface approach to studying development and social change. Both have published widely.
Cuprins
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Reconfiguring modernity and development from an anthropological perspective 2 Creating or regulating development: representing modernities through language and discourse 3 Modernisation without the market? The case of the ‘Soviet East’ 4 Islamisms and the decivilising processes of globalisation 5 The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika 6 Development discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation and dispossession in West Africa 7 On the anticipation of violence: modernity and identity in Southern Sri Lanka 8 At the frontiers of the modern state in post-war Guatemala 9 Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: discourses on drug addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam 10 Consuming modernity: mutational processes of change 11 Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology
Descriere
This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of modernity and development supported by original case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala.