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Hybrids Of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

By Penelope Harvey

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415130441, 041513045X, 9780415130455, 9780203288382
Open Library ID
OL7483600M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6695255 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
219\219
Topic
Biology\\Anthropology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late 20th century. Through analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in seville in 1992, the themes of culture, nationality and technology are explored. Particular attention is paid to how "culture" is produced and put to work by the national and corporate participants, and to the relationship between the emergence of culture as commodity and the way in which the concept is employed in contemporary cultural theory.

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