David Scott

Broschiertes Buch

Conscripts of Modernity

The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

Beschreibung

Uses C.L.R. James'sThe Black Jacobins as a jumping-off point for a reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial concepts of history, politics, and agency.

Autor

David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality and Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil. He is editor of the journal Small Axe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334446
• ISBN-10: 0822334445
• Artikelnr.: 14443196