From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and
elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have
attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have
also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine
how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population.
This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing,
demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts
by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the
Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study
given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour,
both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this
book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such
as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key
contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists
looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in
other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of
anthropology to their debates.
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ISBN
9781000323313
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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