Modernity and exclusion
Joel S. Kahn.
Bok Engelsk 2001
| Utgitt | London : : SAGE, , 2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (x, 163 p.).
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| Opplysninger | "Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Nottingham Trent University"--t.p. verso.. - Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 MODERNITY AND ITS OTHERS: UNIVERSAL IDEALS AND PARTICULAR OUTCOMES; 2 NATURALISING DIFFERENCE: CIVILISATION AND THE PRIMITIVE IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION; 3 AMERICAN MODERN: ALIENS, DESPOTS AND THE REPUBLIC; 4 CIVILISATIONAL VIRTUES IN THE MALAY KAMPONG; 5 ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER: MODERNISM AND RACISM; REFERENCES; INDEX. - This text re-examines the project of modernity by opposing the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative ethnographic understanding. The book draws out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 0761966560. - 0761966579
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