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Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics

Jonathan Xavier Inda (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-22826-4
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292 pages
September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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.

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