Figurations of modernity
Subtitle: global and local representations in comparative perspective
By: Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf (eds.).
Series: Eigene und fremde Welten -- v. 12; Eigene und fremde Welten -- Bd. 12.
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9783593386829
Subjects: Modern Civilization; Congresses; Colonization; Culture and globalization; Globalization; Globalisierung; Modernität
Notes: "This collection of essays arose out of an interdisciplinary workshop on Figurations of Modernity (07-08.04.2006), organised by the working group>Modernity<at the collaborative research centre Representations of Social Order and Change at Humboldt University Berlin"--p. [7].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : figurations and representations of modernity / Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf; title: Representations of modernity in colonial Indonesia / Vincent Houben; title: Performing the metropolitan habitus : images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa / Michael Pesek; title: Modern Indians : the training of indigenous teachers in post-revolutionary Mexico / Eugenia Roldán Vera; title: Representations of modernisation and vocational education in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century / Verónica Oelsner; title: Modernity and the problem of secular morality in Tibet / Vincanne Adams; title: Planning the modern Tibetan family in China / Mona Schrempf; title: The modernity of heritage : visualizing the past in a Nigerian city kingdom / Peter Probst; title: Heroes in the museum : Soviet hero constructions and multiple meanings of modernity on the Soviet periphery / Olaf Guenther.