Worlds apart : modernity through the prism of the local /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. |
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| Description: | xii, 270 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The uses of knowledge Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference (4th : 1993 : Oxford, England). Uses of knowledge. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1832777 |
Table of Contents:
- Series editor's preface / Marilyn Strathern
- Foreword / Daniel Miller
- 1. Introduction: anthropology, modernity and consumption / D. Miller
- 2. Inconsistent temporalities in a nation-space / M. Rowlands
- 3. Creating a culture of disillusionment: consumption in Moscow, a chronicle of changing times / C. Humphrey
- 4. Bureaucratic erasure: identity, resistance and violence - Aborigines and a discourse of autonomy in a North Queensland town / B. Kapferer
- 5. Around a plantation: the ethnography of business in Cameroon / J.-P. Warnier
- 6. Learning to be local in Belize: global systems of common difference / R. Wilk
- 7. Global complexity and the simplicity of everyday life / Kajsa-Ekholm-Friedman and J. Friedman
- 8. On soap opera: what kind of anthropological object is it? / V. Das
- 9. The objects of soap opera: Egyptian television and the cultural politics of modernity / L. Abu-Lughod
- 10. Aboriginal art in a global context / H. Morphy
- 11. Traversing the global and the local: fuji music and praise poetry in the production of contemporary Yoruba popular culture / K. Barber and C. Waterman.