ISBN:
0203450892
,
0415204992
,
041520500X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology, Development and Modernities : Exploring Discourse, Counter-Tendencies and Violence
DDC:
306/.091724
Keywords:
Rural development
;
Social change
;
Violence
;
Applied anthropology
;
Developing countries Economic policy
;
Developing countries Social policy
Abstract:
This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of modernity and development supported by original case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Reconfiguring modernity and development from an anthropological perspective; Creating or regulating development: representing modernities through language and discourse; Modernisation without the market? The case of the 'Soviet East'; Islamisms and the decivilising processes of globalisation; The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika; Development discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation and dispossession in West Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
On the anticipation of violence: modernity and identity in Southern Sri LankaAt the frontiers of the modern state in post-war Guatemala; Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: discourses on drug addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam; Consuming modernity: mutational processes of change; Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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