Rather, they consider the centralization and reform efforts of the 19th century as the major instruments responsible for progression toward modernity.
This is why archaeology, like anthropology, is always an (indirect) commentary on modernity.
The later "developmentalisms" of post-independence states were also subjected to new scrutiny in the light of a critical rethinking of modernity.
The success of the project is in inverse proportion to its ambition - and these essays attempt a complete theological overturning of secular modernity.
Second, it gets at a kind of cultural/musical formation which is typical of globalising modernity.
Women play a crucial role in material expressions of the identity of pastoral groups, in power relations, local knowledge, social relations, and modernity.
Both, however, insist that an understanding of the modern occult will change how we understand modernity.
He succeeded in reuniting tradition and modernity, and in making measure useful and meaningful once again.
