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9780761966579 Academic Inspection Copy

Modernity and Exclusion

  • ISBN-13: 9780761966579
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Joel S. Kahn
  • Price: AUD $156.00
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  • Local release date: 16/09/2001
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 310g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Anthropology [JHM]
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This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of `popular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.
Joel Kahn is Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University of Melbourne
Modernity and Its Others Universal Ideals and Particular Outcomes Naturalizing Difference Civilization and the Primitive in the British Imagination American Modern Aliens, Despots and the Republic Civilizational Virtues in the Malay Kampong Encountering the Other Modernism and Racism
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