Worlds apart : modernity through the prism of the local / edited by Daniel Miller.
Contributor(s): Miller, Daniel
| Association of Social Anthropologists. Decennial Conference (4: 1993: Oxford)
Language: English Series: Uses of knowledge : global and local relationsPublisher: London : Routledge, 1995.Description: xii, 270p. : ill., maps ; 24cm.ISBN: 041510789X| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Papers from one section of the Fourth decennial conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, July 1993 (Pref.). -.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: anthropology, modernity and consumption / D. Miller; Inconsistent temporalities in a nation-space / M. Rowlands; Creating a culture of disillusionment: consumption in Moscow, a chronicle of changing times / C. Humphrey; Bureaucratic erasure: identity, resistance and violence - Aborigines and a discourse of autonomy in a north Queensland town / B. Kapferer; Around a plantation: the ethnography of business in Cameroon / J. - P. Warnier; Learning to be local in Belize / R. Wilk; Global complexity and the simplicity of everyday life / K. Ekholm-Friedman, J. Friedman; On soap opera: what kind of anthropological object is it? / V. Das; The objects of soap opera: Egyptian television and the cultural politics of modernity / L. Abu-Lughod; Aboriginal art in a global context / H. Morphy; Traversing the global and the local: fûji music and praise poetry in the production of contemporary Yoruba popular culture / K. Barber, C. Waterman.