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Anthropology, development and modernities : exploring discourses, counter-tendencies and violence / edited by Alberto Arce and Norman Long.

Contributor(s): Arce, Alberto | Long, Norman
Language: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 2000.Description: xvi, 232p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 041520500X
Contents:
Reconfiguring modernity and development from an anthropological perspective / A. Arce, N. Long; Creating or regulating development / A. Arce; Modernisation without the market? The case of the Soviet East / D. Kandiyoti; Islamisms and the decivilising process of globalisation / Azza M. Karam; The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika / Eleanor Fisher, A. Arce; Development discourse and its subversion: West Africa / James Fairhead; On the anticipation of violence: southern Sri Lanka / P. Jeganathan; At the frontiers of the modern state in post-war Guatemala / F. Stepputat; Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: drug addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam / Ineke van Wetering, Paul van Gelder; Consuming modernity / A. Arce, N. Long; Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology / N. Long.
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Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KD [ARC-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L73323
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Bibliography: p.202-222.

Reconfiguring modernity and development from an anthropological perspective / A. Arce, N. Long; Creating or regulating development / A. Arce; Modernisation without the market? The case of the Soviet East / D. Kandiyoti; Islamisms and the decivilising process of globalisation / Azza M. Karam; The spectacle of modernity: blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika / Eleanor Fisher, A. Arce; Development discourse and its subversion: West Africa / James Fairhead; On the anticipation of violence: southern Sri Lanka / P. Jeganathan; At the frontiers of the modern state in post-war Guatemala / F. Stepputat; Vital force, avenging spirits and zombies: drug addiction among Surinamese Creole migrants in Amsterdam / Ineke van Wetering, Paul van Gelder; Consuming modernity / A. Arce, N. Long; Exploring local/global transformations: a view from anthropology / N. Long.

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