Critically modern : alternatives, alterities, anthropologies /
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Imprint: | Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2002. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 329 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11116458 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Critically Modern: An Introduction
- Part I.
- 1. Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere
- 2. Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse
- 3. Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station
- 4. "Hands-Up"-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia
- Part II.
- 5. Modernity's Masculine Fantasies
- 6. Accessing "Local" Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography
- 7. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot
- Part III.
- 8. On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues
- 9. Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to "Modernity"?: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime
- 10. Modernity and Other Traditions
- Contributors