Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

by Bruce M. Knauft

"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology."
--Charles Piot

"In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253215382
• ISBN13: 9780253215383
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher