Modernity and Exclusion

by Joel S. Kahn

Book Overview

This penetrating book re-examines the project of modernity′. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative ethnographic′ understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of popular modernism′ in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761966579
• ISBN13: 9780761966579
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"