Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

by Harvey,Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780415130455
• ISBN10: 041513045X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Hybrids of Modernityconsiders the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the target of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late 20th century. Through an analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in Seville in 1992, the themes of culture, nationality and technology are explored. Particular attention is paid to how "culture" is produced and put to work by the national and corporate participants, and to the relationship between the emergence of culture as a commodity and the way in which the concept is employed in contemporary cultural theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Anthropology: Can We Do Anthropology When Culture and Context Become Self-Evident?	p. 29
The Nation State	p. 50
The Universal Exhibition: Changing Relationships between Technology and Culture	p. 99
Hybrid Subjects: Citizens as Consumers	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 170
Notes	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 192
Index	p. 201
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