"Resolutely transgressing disciplinary and spatial boundaries, Tambiah offers a scholarly but accessible, a focused but wide-ranging analysis that places ethnicity on the borderlines of the old and the new, the past and the present, politics and culture...With uncanny skill, he turns the contemporary worry about ethnic politics and violence into a brilliant meditation on the history of nationalism, nation-states, and world-capitalism--in a word, modernity itself. No student of modernity, let alone ethnicity in South Asia and other regions, can afford to ignore this thoughtful inquiry into our modern history."--Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
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"Resolutely transgressing disciplinary and spatial boundaries, Tambiah offers a scholarly but accessible, a focused but wide-ranging analysis that places ethnicity on the borderlines of the old and the new, the past and the present, politics and culture...With uncanny skill, he turns the contemporary worry about ethnic politics and violence into a brilliant meditation on the history of nationalism, nation-states, and world-capitalism--in a word, modernity itself. No student of modernity, let alone ethnicity in South Asia and other regions, can afford to ignore this thoughtful inquiry into our modern history."--Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 10 |
Release date | 1997 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 1997 |
Authors | Stanley J. Tambiah |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 417 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-20642-7 |
Barcode | 9780520206427 |
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LSN | 0-520-20642-8 |