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Christian Moderns - Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: The Anthropology of Christianity, 1
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"Webb Keane's book demonstrates, once again, that nothing
illuminates the puzzles of modernity as effectively as
cross-cultural studies of colonial encounters. His careful,
interdisciplinary, and penetrating analysis of the semiotics of
conversion to Dutch Calvinism in the Indonesian island of Sumba and
his skillful blending of theological and anthropological issues
will make this book a model for studies of religious conversion. It
truly deserves a wide readership."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of
"Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical
Difference"
""Christian Moderns" is a wonderful exploration of the boundaries
between material things, words, and agents, and the implications of
their separation and interconnection for the master trope of
modernity. In a rich and challenging analysis, . . . the book shows
how a Christian modernity was negotiated and inhabited. The
elaborate care with which Keane argues this thesis is truly
impressive. I do not know of any other anthropological book on the
same theme that can compare with it."--Talal Asad, author of
"Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in
Christianity and Islam"
""Christian Moderns" is the kind of book every anthropologist would
like to have written. Keane moves easily between the large and
small picture: modernism, purification, and Protestantism; a
religious conversion or the changing value of meat on the
Indonesian island of Sumba. In developing a semiotic ideology, he
is able to address at once verbal and material culture, ritual
speech and exchange, innerness and sincerity, agency,
intentionality and fetishism, and the mutual misrecognitions of the
missionary and the 'pagan.' I knowof no book that is as sensitive
to the embedded, the spiritual, conundra, of religious contact and
conversion and yet remains rigorous in argument."--Vincent
Crapanzano, author of "Serving the Word: Literalism in America from
the Pulpit to the Bench"
"In this remarkable work, Webb Keane juxtaposes European religious
disputes with an ethnographic account of Christian conversion in
Indonesia. Abiding dilemmas of western social science--he
argues--have their source in language ideologies that
anthropologists share with the Protestant missionaries who preceded
them. Anxieties about objectification, agency, and the erasure of
materiality have been crucial to Calvinism. They are no less
central to colonial modernization projects and our own logics of
inquiry. In lucid prose, Keane builds a powerful argument about
semiosis and material life that is sure to stimulate important
debate."--Susan Gal, co-author of "The Politics of Gender After
Socialism"
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Anthropology of Christianity, 1 |
Release date: |
2007 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
Webb Keane
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
336 |
Edition: |
Illustrated Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-24652-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
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LSN: |
0-520-24652-7 |
Barcode: |
9780520246522 |
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