Figurations of modernity : global and local representations in comparative perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt ; New York :
Campus Verlag,
[2008]
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| Series: | Eigene und fremde Welten ;
Bd. 12. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : figurations and representations of modernity / Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf
- Representations of modernity in colonial Indonesia / Vincent Houben
- Performing the metropolitan habitus : images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa / Michael Pesek
- Modern Indians : the training of indigenous teachers in post-revolutionary Mexico / Eugenia Roldán Vera
- Representations of modernisation and vocational education in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century / Verónica Oelsner
- Modernity and the problem of secular morality in Tibet / Vincanne Adams
- Planning the modern Tibetan family in China / Mona Schrempf
- The modernity of heritage : visualizing the past in a Nigerian city kingdom / Peter Probst
- Heroes in the museum : Soviet hero constructions and multiple meanings of modernity on the Soviet periphery / Olaf Guenther.