Anthropology, development and modernities : Exploring discourses, counter-tendencies and violence

By:

Arce Alberto

Contributor(s):

Long Norman

Publication details: London Routledge 2000Description: 232p xvISBN:

9780415205009

Subject(s):

1. Applied Anthropology - Develooping Countries2. Social Anthropology 3. Social Change - Developing Countires

DDC classification:

306. ARC

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1 Reconfiguring modernity and developmentfroman anthropological perspective; 2 Creating or regulating development: representing modernities through language and discourse ; 3 Modernizationwithout the market? The case of theSoviet East; 4 Islamisms and the decivilising process of globalisation; 5 The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika; 6 Development discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation in West Africa; 7 On the anticipation of violence: modernity and identity in Southern Sri Lanka; 8 At the frontiers of the modern state inpost-war Guatermala; 9 Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: discourse on drug addiction among Surnamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam; 10 Consuming modernity: mutational process of change; 11 Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology; Bibliography ; Index.

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BOOKs	National Law School	Anthropology Section	306 ARC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		23986

CONTENTS;
1 Reconfiguring modernity and developmentfroman anthropological perspective;
2 Creating or regulating development: representing modernities through language and discourse ;
3 Modernizationwithout the market? The case of theSoviet East;
4 Islamisms and the decivilising process of globalisation;
5 The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika;
6 Development discourse and its subversion: decivilisation, depoliticisation in West Africa;
7 On the anticipation of violence: modernity and identity in Southern Sri Lanka;
8 At the frontiers of the modern state inpost-war Guatermala;
9 Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: discourse on drug addiction among Surnamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam;
10 Consuming modernity: mutational process of change;
11 Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology;
Bibliography ;
Index.

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