Politics of temporalization : medievalism and orientalism in nineteenth-century South America /
This book delves further into the politics of the medieval/modern divide and its attendant concepts of modernity, alternative modernities and the premodern by investigating these historical boundary-crossing struggles in the Ibero-American context. The notion that Ibero-America was medieval or that...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book delves further into the politics of the medieval/modern divide and its attendant concepts of modernity, alternative modernities and the premodern by investigating these historical boundary-crossing struggles in the Ibero-American context. The notion that Ibero-America was medieval or that the British Empire would bring modern ways of life to the Spanish American premodern backwaters was not the purview of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars but was already evident in early ethnographic and autoethnographic texts from the nineteenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 252 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812252279 0812252276 |