Questions of modernity /

Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty--which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2000.
Series:Contradictions of modernity ; v. 11.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsqrg