{"product_id":"anthropologies-of-modernity-9780631228264","title":"Anthropologies of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.  * Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.  * Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is one of the best collections of its kind. Written by leading anthropologists, this volume takes up Foucault's challenge to modern knowledge and significantly expands the discourse on our current cultural and epistemological predicament.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBill Maurer, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ranging across colonialism, globalization, technoscience, biosociality, and necropolitics, each gem in this superbly integrated collection demonstrates how anthropologists inspired by Foucault’s ideas about modern government can transcend his Eurocentrism while building on his original provocations.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Gledhill, University of Manchester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalytics of Modern: An Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Colonial Reasons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Colonial Governmentality. (David Scott).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon. (Peter Redfield).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Global Governance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Graduated Sovereignty in South East Asia. (Aihwa Ong).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality. (James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Technico Sciences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body. (David Horn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism. (Adriana Petryna).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Biosocial Subjects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality. (Paul Rabinow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of Self in the Age of Genetics. (Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Necropolitical Projects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu. (Diane M. Nelson) 10. Technologies of Invisibility: Politics of Life and Social Inequality. (João Biehl).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403447509335,"sku":"9780631228264","price":86.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631228264.jpg?v=1730483500","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropologies-of-modernity-9780631228264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}