Critically Modern : Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

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Critically Modern : Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 344 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780253215383
  • DDC分類 305.8

Full Description

"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology."
—Charles Piot

"In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually enriching. The volume should appeal to scholars across the entire range of disciplines that deal with modernity and/or globalization."
—Edward LiPuma

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, John D. Kelly, Bruce M. Knauft, Lisa B. Rofel, Debra A. Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.

Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface

Critically Modern: An Introduction Bruce M. Knauft

PART I

1. Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere Robert J. Foster

2. Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse Ivan Karp

3. Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station Bruce M. Knauft
4. "Hands-Up"-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia Holly Wardlow

PART II

5. Modernity's Masculine Fantasies Lisa B. Rofel

6. Accessing "Local" Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography Debra A. Spitulnik

7. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot Michel-Rolph Trouillot

PART III

8. On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues Donald L. Donham

9. Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to "Modernity"?: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime John D. Kelly

10. Modernity and Other Traditions Jonathan Friedman

Contributors