Anthropology of Modernity: Projects and Contexts  

Oleh:

Linkenbach, Antje

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 61 no. 1 (Mei 2000), page 41–63.
Topik: anthropology; India; locality; modernity; social movements
Fulltext: 41TE611.pdf (99.52KB)

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The article takes up J. P. Arnason's basic theoretical assumption that the western trajectory to modernity marks only one possibility of the modern constellation and that modernity has to be pluralized. Arnason's differentiation between a civilizational paradigm and a civilizational horizon allows us to acknowledge the ambivalent perceptions of modernity prevalent in the colonial and postcolonial encounter and gives space for counterparadigms of modernity. Through a brief discussion of Indian reflections on modernity (P. Chatterjee, J. Alam) I want to argue that the aspect of agency, marginalized in the philosophical and sociological debate on multiple modernities, has to be integrated into the theory. Examples from the Indian Himalayas should show how in everyday life as well as in the course of a social movement for regional autonomy 'preferred futures' are negotiated on the basis of a reflexive balancing of 'traditional' and 'modern' elements which are articulated and joined in a self-made present. The article ends with a plaidoyer for an anthropology of modernity.

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