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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Page 13
... turning on “culture” and “tradition” – in formations of history, anthropology, and historical anthropology. On offer are intellectual articulations of hegemonic and critical representations of the temporal and the spatial; at stake also ...
... turning on “culture” and “tradition” – in formations of history, anthropology, and historical anthropology. On offer are intellectual articulations of hegemonic and critical representations of the temporal and the spatial; at stake also ...
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... common assumptions and mutual denials, disciplinary genealogies that have deep provenance and wide implications in social worlds. Examining such reciprocal principles, turning on An Introduction | 21 Historical anthropology.
... common assumptions and mutual denials, disciplinary genealogies that have deep provenance and wide implications in social worlds. Examining such reciprocal principles, turning on An Introduction | 21 Historical anthropology.
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... turning on space and time, which prop up history and anthropology, I seek to probe the business-asusual of anthropology and history as well as to present the consequences at large of the meeting and mating of these inquiries.35 In more ...
... turning on space and time, which prop up history and anthropology, I seek to probe the business-asusual of anthropology and history as well as to present the consequences at large of the meeting and mating of these inquiries.35 In more ...
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... itself has its genealogies, turning on disciplinary specialisations and unsteady articulations of space-time, issues to which I will return. INTIMATIONS OF MODERNITY: TIME AND SPACE This chapter is cast 30 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
... itself has its genealogies, turning on disciplinary specialisations and unsteady articulations of space-time, issues to which I will return. INTIMATIONS OF MODERNITY: TIME AND SPACE This chapter is cast 30 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
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... turning on an implicitly unchanging tradition, marked by a passive space, shaped by the dead hand of ruling culture. Thus, it was only when these subordinate groups claimed the “essence” of their initiatives in the shape of insurgency ...
... turning on an implicitly unchanging tradition, marked by a passive space, shaped by the dead hand of ruling culture. Thus, it was only when these subordinate groups claimed the “essence” of their initiatives in the shape of insurgency ...
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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