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UNINA9910876572103321 |
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Autore |
Inda Jonathan Xavier |
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Titolo |
Anthropologies of Modernity : Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics |
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ISBN |
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1-280-28567-2 |
9786610285679 |
0-470-70445-4 |
0-470-77587-4 |
1-4051-5302-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture and globalization |
Culture and globaliztion |
Foucault, Michel |
Philosophy |
Political anthropology |
Political anthropology - Philosophy |
Politics and culture |
Anthropology |
Social Sciences |
Social & Cultural Anthropology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Anthropologies of Modernity; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Analytics of the Modern: An Introduction; Part I Colonial Reasons; 1 Colonial Governmentality; 2 Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon; Part II Global Governance; 3 Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia; 4 Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography; Part III Technico Sciences; 5 Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science,; 6 Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism; Part IV Biosocial Subjects; 7 Artificiality and Enlightenment: From |
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Sociobiology to Biosociality |
8 Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of GeneticsPart V Necropolitical Projects; 9 Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu; 10 Technologies of Invisibility: Politics of Life and Social Inequality; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity. Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations. Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS. Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa Ong, Paul Rabinow, and Rayna Rapp.</li |
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