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Questions of modernity /
Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty--which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and poli...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | Contradictions of modernity ;
v. 11. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty--which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 229 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816689064 0816689067 |