An edition of Figurations of modernity (2008)

Figurations of modernity

global and local representations in comparative perspective

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Campus Verlag
Language
English
Pages
198

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Subjects

Modern Civilization, Congresses, Colonization, Culture and globalization, Globalization, Globalisierung, Modernität, Civilization, modern, Postcolonialism

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Table of Contents

Introduction : figurations and representations of modernity / Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf
Representations of modernity in colonial Indonesia / Vincent Houben
Performing the metropolitan habitus : images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa / Michael Pesek
Modern Indians : the training of indigenous teachers in post-revolutionary Mexico / Eugenia Roldán Vera
Representations of modernisation and vocational education in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century / Verónica Oelsner
Modernity and the problem of secular morality in Tibet / Vincanne Adams
Planning the modern Tibetan family in China / Mona Schrempf
The modernity of heritage : visualizing the past in a Nigerian city kingdom / Peter Probst
Heroes in the museum : Soviet hero constructions and multiple meanings of modernity on the Soviet periphery / Olaf Guenther.

Edition Notes

"This collection of essays arose out of an interdisciplinary workshop on Figurations of Modernity (07-08.04.2006), organised by the working group>Modernity<at the collaborative research centre Representations of Social Order and Change at Humboldt University Berlin"--p. [7].

Includes bibliographical references.

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Frankfurt, New York
Series
Eigene und fremde Welten -- v. 12, Eigene und fremde Welten -- Bd. 12.

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.4091724
Library of Congress
CB357 .F54 2008

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198 p.
Number of pages
198

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OL31823141M
ISBN 10
3593386828
ISBN 13
9783593386829
LCCN
2009412246
OCLC/WorldCat
225875938

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