Critically Modern - Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

An exploration of the meaning of modernity in contemporary ethnography.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edited by Bruce M Knauft (Editor), Bruce Knauft (Editor), Bruce M Knauft (Editor), Bruce M. Knauft (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2002
• EAN: 9780253215383
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21538-3
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 238 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology