Critically modern : alternatives, alterities, anthropologies / edited by Bruce M. Knauft.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knauft, Bruce M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Cross-cultural studies.

Social change.

Civilization, Modern--Cross-cultural studies.

Civilization, Modern.

Acculturation--Cross-cultural studies.

Acculturation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that social scientists have sought to move beyond in recent years? 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 problematic.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Critically Modern: An Introduction; One: Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere; Two: Development and Personhood, Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse; Three: Trials of the Oxymodern, Public Practice at Nomad Station; Four: Hands-UpŽ…ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops, Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia; Five: Modernity's Masculine Fantasies; Six: Accessing LocalŽ Modernities, Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography; Seven: The Otherwise Modern, Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot

Eight: On Being Modern in a Capitalist World, Some Conceptual and Comparative IssuesNine: Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to ModernityŽ, Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime; Ten: Modernity and Other Traditions; Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Revisions of papers presented at a special session held at the 2000 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-10189-1

1-282-06311-1

0-253-10941-8

9786612063114

OCLC:

56636067