Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Questions of Modernity
Engelsk Paperback
Se mere i:
Questions of Modernity
Engelsk Paperback

315 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage

Om denne bog

Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.

Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty—which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This book makes those very non-Western, non-universal elements the tools for fashioning a more complex, rigorous, and multifaceted understanding of how the modern comes about. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco.

Topics include the therapeutics of colonial medical practice, the multiple registers of popular film, television serials and their audiences, psychiatrists and their patients, the iconic figure of the young widow, and the emergence of new political forms beyond the grasp of civil society.

Contributors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U; Dipesh Chakrabarty, U of Chicago; Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Veena Das, U of Delhi; Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia U; Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley; and Gyan Prakash, Princeton U.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780816631346
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0816631344
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2000
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2000
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge