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SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY

The author 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.
eBook, English, uuuu
AFRICAN SUN MEDIA, [Place of publication not identified], uuuu
1 online resource
9781928357452, 1928357458
1121158594
Intro
Foreword
Preface
1. An Introduction
Primary matters
Key questions
Critical concerns
Unraveling orientations: the postcolonial and the subaltern
Historical anthropology
Pathways
Notes
2. Intimations of modernity: time and space
Early encounters
Apprentice engagements
Journeyman entanglements
Latter-​day enmeshments
Notes
3. Maps of modernity: antinomies and enticements
Overture
Abiding antinomies
Untangling modernity
Distinctions of modernity
Other moderns
Coda
Notes 4. Disciplines of modernity: entanglements and ambiguities
Anthropology and time
Ethnography and temporality: key protagonists
History and culture
Anthropology: ambiguities and reconfigurations
History: ambiguities and reconfigurations
At the end
Notes
5. Margins of modernity: identities and incitements
Untangling identity
Colony and empire
Pasts and communities
Nation and modernity
Coda
Notes
6. Modern subjects: an epilogue
Overture
Genealogies
Formations
Emergences
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index