Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies

Abstract

Preface Critically Modern: An Introduction Bruce M. Knauft PART I 1. Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere Robert J. Foster 2. Development and Personhood: Tracing the Contours of a Moral Discourse Ivan Karp 3. Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station Bruce M. Knauft 4. Hands-Up-ing Buses and Harvesting Cheese-Pops: Gendered Mediation of Modern Disjuncture in Melanesia Holly Wardlow PART II 5. Modernity's Masculine Fantasies Lisa B. Rofel 6. Accessing Local Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography Debra A. Spitulnik 7. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot Michel-Rolph Trouillot PART III 8. On Being Modern in a Capitalist World: Some Conceptual and Comparative Issues Donald L. Donham 9. Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to Modernity?: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime John D. Kelly 10. Modernity and Other Traditions Jonathan Friedman Contributors

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