Hybrids of Modernity : Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition.
Title:
Hybrids of Modernity : Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition.
Author:
Harvey, Penelope.
ISBN:
9780203434840
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (219 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- THE WORLD AS EXHIBITION -- THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL -- ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CULTURALLY FAMILIAR -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- THE EXPO'92 -- HYBRIDS OF MODERNITY -- Chapter 2 Anthropology: can we do anthropology when culture and context become self-evident? -- CONTEXT AND THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCT -- CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION AT EXPO'92 -- AUTO-ANTHROPOLOGY: CONTEXTUALIZATION AS INTERACTION -- Chapter 3 The nation state -- TECHNOLOGIES OF NATIONHOOD -- THE NATION STATE AT EXPO'92 -- CULTURAL DIFFERENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY NATION STATE -- THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE NATION STATE -- Chapter 4 The universal exhibition: changing relationships between technology and culture -- THE NATION AND THE CORPORATION -- THE DISPLAY OF SURPLUS VALUE -- CULTURE AS TECHNOLOGICAL EFFECT -- TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE -- THE INFORMATICS OF DOMINATION -- Chapter 5 Hybrid subjects: citizens as consumers -- ON CONSUMPTION -- KNOWLEDGE AND CHOICE -- CONSUMPTION AS FRUSTRATED DESIRE -- EXPERIENCE AND MODERNITY -- EXPO, DISNEY AND THE WELSH GARDEN FESTIVAL -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- CULTURAL PROCESS AND CULTURAL FORM -- HYBRID INSTITUTIONS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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