Figurations of modernity : global and local representations in comparative perspective / Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf (eds.).

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2008], ©2008.

198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This collection of essays arose out of an interdisciplinary workshop on Figurations of Modernity (07-08.04.2006), organised by the working group 'Modernity' at the collaborative research centre Representations of Social Order and Change at Humboldt University Berlin"--P. [7].

Introduction : figurations and representations of modernity / Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf -- Representations of modernity in colonial Indonesia / Vincent Houben -- Performing the metropolitan habitus : images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa / Michael Pesek -- Modern Indians : the training of indigenous teachers in post-revolutionary Mexico / Eugenia Roldán Vera -- Representations of modernisation and vocational education in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century / Verónica Oelsner -- Modernity and the problem of secular morality in Tibet / Vincanne Adams -- Planning the modern Tibetan family in China / Mona Schrempf -- The modernity of heritage : visualizing the past in a Nigerian city kingdom / Peter Probst -- Heroes in the museum : Soviet hero constructions and multiple meanings of modernity on the Soviet periphery / Olaf Guenther.