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Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

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Description for Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies Paperback. An exploration of the meaning of modernity in contemporary ethnography. Editor(s): Knauft, Bruce M. Num Pages: 344 pages, 22 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.

"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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253215383
SKU
V9780253215383
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-22

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

Reviews for Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies
"... 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

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