Critically Modern – Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies
Autor Bruce M. Knauften Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 sep 2002
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253215383
ISBN-10: 0253215382
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 22 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253215382
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 22 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Cuprins
PrefaceCritically Modern: An Introduction Bruce M. KnauftPART I1. Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere Robert J. Foster2. Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse Ivan Karp3. Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station Bruce M. Knauft4. "Hands-Up"-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia Holly WardlowPART II5. Modernity's Masculine Fantasies Lisa B. Rofel6. Accessing "Local" Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography Debra A. Spitulnik7. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot Michel-Rolph TrouillotPART III8. On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues Donald L. Donham9. Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to "Modernity"?: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime John D. Kelly10. Modernity and Other Traditions Jonathan FriedmanContributors
Recenzii
... a book of considerable intellectual sophistication. Lively, shrewd and persuasive, ... this informative book marks an important event in the ongoing debte on multiple modernities.
Notă biografică
Bruce M. Knauft is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and Director of the Vernacular Modernities Program.
Descriere
An exploration of the meaning of modernity in contemporary ethnography.