Overview

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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Author:   Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780253215383

ISBN 10:   0253215382
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   27 September 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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"

Reviews

<p>. .. a book of considerable intellectual sophistication. Lively, shrewdand persuasive, ... this informative book marks an important event in the ongoingdebte on multiple modernities. -- Net Book Review

.. . a book of considerable intellectual sophistication. Lively, shrewd and persuasive, ... this informative book marks an important event in the ongoing debte on multiple modernities. Net Book Review

<p>. .. a book of considerable intellectual sophistication. Lively, shrewd and persuasive, ... this informative book marks an important event in the ongoing debte on multiple modernities. --Net Book Review

Author Information

Bruce M. Knauft is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and Director of the Vernacular Modernities Program.

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