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Progress in the Balance - Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil (Hardcover)
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Progress in the Balance - Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil (Hardcover)
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Through a historical ethnography of Santos, Brazil, Progress in the
Balance addresses and assesses an anthropological theory of
progress. Observing that anthropology is a progressive discipline
with a pessimistic attitude towards progress, Daniel Reichman
explains the contested meanings of progress in Brazil and explores
how anthropologists and others can define this concept more
generally. He investigates how any society can separate "progress"
from plain old change and, if change is constantly happening all
around us, how and why certain events get lifted out of a normal
timeframe and into a mythic narrative of progress. Each chapter
outlines a particular episode in the history of Santos, a city
undergoing an unprecedented period of economic and political
turmoil, as it is represented in public culture, mainly through
museums, monuments, art, and public events. Drawing on the
anthropology of myth, Reichman proposes a model that he refers to
as a "clash of timescapes." Progress in the Balance shows how this
concept of "progress" requires a different temporal structure that
separates sacralized social change from mundane historical events.
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