Anthropology, Development and Modernities (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Discourse, Counter-Tendencies and Violence
Redaktion: Arce, Alberto; Long, Norman

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection uses anthropological perspectives to explore the diverse interpretations of modernity and development in today's world. For some, modernity and development has brought prosperity, optimism and opportunity, but for others it has brought poverty and a falling quality of life. This book provides a crucial review of the varied interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West Africa and contemporary Europe. Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134628438
• Artikelnr.: 42976510

Autorenporträt

Alberto Arce and Norman Long are both based in the Department of Sociology at Wageningen University in the the Netherlands. Alberto Arce's research focuses on agricultural and environmental issues. Norman Long has developed an actor-oriented and interface approach to studying development and social change. Both have published widely.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements 1 Reconfiguring modernity and development from an
anthropological perspective 2 Creating or regulating development:
representing modernities through language and discourse 3 Modernisation
without the market? The case of the 'Soviet East' 4 Islamisms and the
decivilising processes of globalisation 5 The spectacle of modernity:
blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika 6 Development
discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation and
dispossession in West Africa 7 On the anticipation of violence: modernity
and identity in Southern Sri Lanka 8 At the frontiers of the modern state
in post-war Guatemala 9 Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies:
discourses on drug addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam
10 Consuming modernity: mutational processes of change 11 Exploring
local/global transformations: a view from anthropology