...This chapter considers the question of what the “analytic modernist” would look like. We might begin to answer on a formal level, deriving the schema itself by turning the master's discourse two clockwise quarter turns. The schema is suggestive: the modernist, as a split subject, and modernity...

... by metanarratives of modernity. Clay Jason anthropology anthropologists advocacy for social justice by cultural relativism study of genocide and genocide anthropological contribution to understanding Mooney James Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wounded Knee indigenous peoples definition of Brazil...

... empire, some Japanese writers discovered a savage within themselves. The protagonist of Ōshika's “The Savage” goes to the aboriginal lands in search of his inner savage and becomes a “headhunter” to free himself from civilized modernity. Just as an earlier generation of writers drew on global discourses...

...The Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. This study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture...

...The advertising realm of the Weimar Republic of today offers a remarkable visual record of the reenchantment of modernity via apparently rational means. This chapter focuses on the shocks targeted at the psyche of the modern city-dweller by the new stimulants employed in Weimar advertising. It also...

... that the race quickly established itself as the nation's most popular sporting event, attracting ever-more-extensive media coverage. The chapter discusses that most of the Tour-inspired narratives reflect their often-conflicted relationship with modernity. It clarifies that the French have used the race to tell...

... of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as the author illustrates in his analysis of Bach's...

... explores the liberal, individualist component of the modern outlook. Don Giovanni, the embodiment of limitless desire, is one of perhaps only two mythical figures born of the modern age (the other being Faust), a figure of the liberal Lockean strand within modernity that accepts and celebrates our...

... in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to alter...

...This chapter traces how the post-Mao pursuit of modernity, known as “economic reform,” constructs mobile discourses of dominance in which national priorities for development normalize workers even as they cast workers to the side of history. Rather than accepting as transparent the identities...

..., in retrospect, felt that as a result of their past, they had lost possibilities rather than gained them. Though shared, the yearning did not have homogeneous effects, nor did it always remain contained within dominant discourses about the past and future of China's modernity. This yearning could as easily...

...Turning in this chapter to the current period and to the youngest cohort, which came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, one can readily see the disjunctures that distinguish this most recent project of modernity from previous ones. In this context, gender has become highly visible as a category...

...This chapter relates the history of abortion and family planning as told by Greek professionals who work in medicine, psychology, and demography. Family planning was introduced to Greece as a means of modernity. The chapter demonstrates how its ideology and methodology join other development...

...This book turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity. The author shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from...

...This chapter addresses the “birth” of hygienic modernity as Meiji physician-bureaucrats used the term weisheng to convey a philosophy that linked the health of the individual to the health of the nation. It specifically reviews the specific textual influences, the circulations between...

... on subalterns and elites alike in Tianjin, highlights the role of violence in the Chinese experience of modern technologies under the curious regime that some have called semicolonialism. The Tianjin Provisional Government had been formed at a significant moment in the history of medicine. It also established...

...This chapter investigates modernity's impulse to hide and separate functions of life in order to create a hygienic urban environment. The tension and ambiguity in Tianjin's hygienic status, represented by the Dark Drifters, was preserved exactly because of the multiple political divisions...

... played a central role, but its characteristics were decidedly different from eisei in Taiwan or Korea. The Japanese plague policy reflected Japanese confidence that it could bring other Asian groups into the embrace of hygienic modernity. Japanese occupation-era weisheng policies fell...

...“Terror,” like “security,” is a keyword of contemporary political and economic order. This chapter denaturalizes the term’s latter-day resonance via an examination of its longer history within the context of a specifically colonial modernity. The politics of terror, this chapter contends...

...Using moments of putative rupture as a lens onto the past and the world, the fiction of Roberto Bolaño articulates two genealogies—the hemispheric (and global) history of neoliberal counterrevolution and the planetary history of capitalist, colonial modernity. Revealing the histories cast in shadow...