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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the meaning of modernity in contemporary ethnography.
Trade Review"... a book of considerable intellectual sophistication. Lively, shrewd and persuasive,... this informative book marks an important event in the ongoing debte on multiple modernities." -Net Book Review
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Preface
Critically Modern: An Introduction Bruce M. Knauft
PART I
1. Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere Robert J. Foster
2. Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse Ivan Karp
3. Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station Bruce M. Knauft
4. "Hands-Up"-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia Holly Wardlow
PART II
5. Modernity's Masculine Fantasies Lisa B. Rofel
6. Accessing "Local" Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography Debra A. Spitulnik
7. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot Michel-Rolph Trouillot
PART III
8. On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues Donald L. Donham
9. Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to "Modernity"?: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime John D. Kelly
10. Modernity and Other Traditions Jonathan Friedman
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