Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago |
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... Europe, which have been raised by distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of universal history under the terms of ...
... Europe, which have been raised by distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of universal history under the terms of ...
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... European colonialism and empire with Western knowledge and power.10 Ofcourse, long before the appearance of this work there existed several studies of European images of non-European peoples which identified various stereotypes ...
... European colonialism and empire with Western knowledge and power.10 Ofcourse, long before the appearance of this work there existed several studies of European images of non-European peoples which identified various stereotypes ...
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... European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999); Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press ...
... European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999); Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press ...
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... Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000); Saurabh Dube, Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780– 1950 (Albany, NY: State ...
... Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000); Saurabh Dube, Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780– 1950 (Albany, NY: State ...
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... Europe; Nancy Munn, “The cultural anthropology of time: a critical essay,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 21 (1992): 93–123; Nancy Munn, The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society ...
... Europe; Nancy Munn, “The cultural anthropology of time: a critical essay,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 21 (1992): 93–123; Nancy Munn, The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society ...
Contents
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antinomies and enticements | 57 |
entanglements and ambiguities | 91 |
identities and incitements | 119 |
an epilogue | 139 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 175 |
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