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Subject(s)

• Civilization, Modern [Browse]
• Tradition (Philosophy) [Browse]

Author

• Bartholdson, Örjan [Browse]
• Favero, Paolo, 1969- [Browse]
• Khosravi, Shahram [Browse]

Series

• Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in social anthropology ; new ser., 6. [More in this series]
• Stockholm studies in social anthropology, 0347-0830 ; new series 6

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Modernities on the move : Introduction / Gudrun Dahl
• Modernity
• Traditionality
• Modernity in the individual's life
• Tehran, Delhi, Salvador
• References
• The creation of imagined kingdoms : the eclectic construction of Afro-Brazilian Authenticity / Örjan Bartholdson
• Introduction
• The tension between cosmopolitan openness and essentialized closure
• The boom of social movements
• The links between Tambores and Candomblé
• The fault lines in the Afro-Brazilian movement
• The interaction between Brazilian and international discourses of race
• The specific forms of Afro-Brazilian authenticity
• The logic of practice of essentialism
• The visitors' yearning for authenticity
• The search for grassroots organizations
• The globen magazine
• Selling the image of poverty : Afro-Brazilian culture in Europe
• The importance of Charisma
• Conclusion
• Shahram Khosravi : Rostam and Sohrab in the street : Iranian Struggles over modernity
• Friday 19 June
• Saturday 20 June
• Clashes of generations
• Spaces of defiance
• Final remarks
• Paolo Favero : visions of India among young metropolitan middle-class men in Delhi : from life-stories to public visual culture
• Prologue : about a matchbox
• Place, people, phantasm : the stage
• The Trishanku predicament : cultural identity and imagination
• The visual culture of urban space
• Conclusions
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9789186071981 (pbk.)
• 918607198X (pbk.)

OCLC

860698101

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