The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity

by Fuyuki Kurasawa

A significant intervention in contemporary debates about cross-cultural understanding

Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethnological imagination," a substantial countercurrent of thought that interprets and contests Western modernity's existing social order through comparison and contrast to a non-Western other. Accordingly, Kurasawa traces and critiques, through this prism of cultural alterity, the writings of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642400
• ISBN13: 9780816642403
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"