Anthropology, development, and modernities
Anthropology, development, and modernities: exploring discourses, counter-tendencies, and violence
edited by Alberto Arce and Norman Long
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2000.
ISBN: 041520500X
DDC: 306.091724
LCC: GN397.7
Edition: (pbk.) :No price
Summary:
Brings an anthropological perspective to bear on understanding the
diverse modernities we face in the contemporary world. A critical
review of interpretations of development and modernity, supported by
case studies from regions as diverse as Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West
Africa and contemporary Europe.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Reconfiguring modernity and development from an anthropological
perspective / Alberto Arce and Norman Long -- 2. Creating or
regulating development: representing modernities through language and
discourse / Alberto Arce -- 3. Modernisation without the market? The
case of the 'Soviet East' / Deniz Kandiyoti -- 4. Islamisms and the
decivilising processes of globalisation / Azza M. Karam -- 5. The
spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial
Tanganyika / Eleanor Fisher and Alberto Arce -- 6. Development
discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation and
dispossession in West Africa / James Fairhead -- 7. On the
anticipation of violence: modernity and identity in Southern Sri
Lanka / Pradeep Jeganathan -- 8. At the frontiers of the modern state
in post-war Guatemala / Finn Stepputat.
9. Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: discourses on drug
addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam / Ineke van
Wetering and Paul van Gelder -- 10. Consuming modernity: mutational
processes of change / Alberto Arce and Norman Long -- 11. Exploring
local/global transformations: a view from anthropology / Norman Long.
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