A01=Joel S Kahn
Author_Joel S Kahn
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Cultural Theory
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Social Theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780761966579
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2001
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.
Joel Kahn is Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University of Melbourne
