Hybrids Of Modernity
Subtitle: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415130448
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: Mitchell opens his book on 'the peculiar methods of order that characterize the modern West' with a reminder of the nature of a peculiarity prevalent in nineteenth century Europe: Middle Eastern visitors found Europeans a curios people, with an uncontainable eagerness to stand and stare.