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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...

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Other Authors: Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Civilization, Modern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Civilisation moderne et contemporaine.
Developing countries.
Pays en voie de developpement > Conditions sociales.
Developing countries > Politics and government.
Developing countries > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Stage of modernity / Timothy Mitchell
  • Two poets and death : on civil and political society in the non-Christian world / Partha Chatterjee
  • Witness to suffering : domestic cruelty and the birth of the modern subject in Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty
  • Modern subjects : Egyptian melodrama and postcolonial difference / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Thin line of modernity : some Moroccan debates / Stefania Pandolfo
  • Sovereignty of history : culture and modernity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray / Nicholas B. Dirks
  • Making of modernity : gender and time in Indian cinema / Veena Das
  • Body politic in colonial India / Gyan Prakash.

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