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Critically Modern – Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

Autor Bruce M. Knauft
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 sep 2002
Are there multiple ways of being “modern” in the world today? How do people in various parts of the world become modern in their own distinct ways? Does the current focus on modernity in the social sciences resurrect a series of dichotomies (“traditional” and “modern,” “the West” and “the Rest,” “developed” and “undeveloped”) that social theorists have sought to move beyond in recent years? Or do inflections of modernity capture key features of ideology and influence in the contemporary world? Combining rich ethnographic analysis with incisive theoretical critiques, this timely volume is certain to make an important mark in anthropology and in all related fields in which modernity is a central problematic.Contributors: Donald L. Donham, Robert J. Foster, Jonathan Friedman, Ivan Karp, Bruce M. Knauft, John D. Kelly, Lisa B. Rofel, Debra A. Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.
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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

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.