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.
- ISBN10 0761966579
- ISBN13 9780761966579
- Publish Date 18 June 2001 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL https://uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book209757