David Scott

Gebundenes Buch

Conscripts of Modernity

The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

Beschreibung

Uses C.L.R. James's"The 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: 232mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334330
• ISBN-10: 082233433X
• Artikelnr.: 21653131