Critically Modern

Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

By: Bruce M. Knauft (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 September 2002

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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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"... 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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Preface
Critically Modern: An Introduction	p. 1
Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere	p. 57
Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse	p. 82
Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station	p. 105
"Hands-Up"-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia	p. 144
Modernity's Masculine Fantasies	p. 175
Accessing "Local" Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography	p. 194
The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot	p. 220
On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues	p. 241
Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to "Modernity": Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime	p. 258
Modernity and Other Traditions	p. 287
Contributors	p. 315
Index	p. 319
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