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Provincializing Europe
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
Häftad, 2007
375 kr
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First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is …
Nation and Its Fragments
Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Häftad, 1993
515 kr
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In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating …
Citizen and Subject
Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Häftad, 2018
314 kr
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In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic …
Remaking Women
Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Häftad, 1998
474 kr
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Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle …
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
The British in India
Häftad, 1996
489 kr
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Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal …
Modern Greek Lessons
A Primer in Historical Constructivism
Häftad, 1995
619 kr
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Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the "margins of Europe" recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Drawing inspiration …
Refashioning Futures
Criticism after Postcoloniality
Av David Scott
Häftad, 1999
1073 kr
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How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western …
Vision, Race, and Modernity
A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World
Häftad, 1997
500 kr
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Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in …
History of Everyday Life
Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life
Av Alf Ludtke
Häftad, 1995
637 kr
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Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in reaction to the modernization theory pervading West German social history in the 1970s, …
Colonizing Hawai'i
The Cultural Power of Law
Häftad, 2000
908 kr
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How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the …
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
Häftad, 1996
500 kr
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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style …
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
Av Paul Rabinow
Häftad, 1996
457 kr
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This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked …
Textual Condition
Häftad, 1991
575 kr
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Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the …
Spiritual Interrogations
Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
Häftad, 1999, 15+ år
497 kr
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The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings …
From Duty to Desire
Remaking Families in a Spanish Village
Häftad, 1997
969 kr
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In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she …
Settling Accounts
Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe
Häftad, 1997
744 kr
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As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to …
Culture/Power/History
A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
Av Nicholas Dirks, Geoffrey H. Eley m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
568 kr
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The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in …
Revisioning History
Film and the Construction of a New Past
Häftad, 1995
998 kr
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In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history but as a unique way of recounting the past. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings …
Theft of an Idol
Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence
Häftad, 1997
500 kr
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As collective violence erupts in many regions throughout the world, we often hear media reports that link the outbreaks to age-old ethnic or religious hostilities, thereby freeing the state, its agents, and its political elites from responsibility. Paul Brass encourages us to look more closely at …
Charred Lullabies
Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
Inbunden, 1996
500 kr
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How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of …
High Religion
A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
Häftad, 1989
474 kr
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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and …
Place in History
Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Häftad, 1991
1073 kr
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Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he …
Black Corona
Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
Häftad, 1999
809 kr
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In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class …
After Colonialism
Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements
Av Gyan Prakash
Häftad, 1994
541 kr
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After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin …
Children and the Politics of Culture
Häftad, 1995
619 kr
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The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of …
Engineers of Happy Land
Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
Häftad, 2002
1073 kr
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Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think …
Encountering Development
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Häftad, 2011
406 kr
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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development …
Local Histories/Global Designs
Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Häftad, 2012
366 kr
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Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy …
Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
Häftad, 2014
938 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state …
Intimacy and Exclusion
Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden
Häftad, 2014
852 kr
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During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential …
