1st Edition

Hybrids of Modernity Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

By Penelope Harvey Copyright 1996
224 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Anthropology; Chapter 3 The nation state; Chapter 4 The universal exhibition; Chapter 5 Hybrid subjects; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

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Harvey, Penelope