Against autonomy : global dialectics of cultural exchange /
This book investigates 'cultural instruments', meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. The book explores the interlocking histories of cultur...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | This book investigates 'cultural instruments', meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. The book explores the interlocking histories of cultural instruments from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their instrumental use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean. In the process, the author gives close readings of works by a wide range of authors. Many other authors' works become part of the book's general argument about how cultures are made, how they figure both themselves and other cultures, and how they mutually interact (when they do) through productions of what the author calls the 'fictive imagination' - what in the West is called 'art' but in different cultures may take different names and serve different purposes. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 532 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-508) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0804743495 9780804743495 0804743509 9780804743501 |