Worldliness in Out of the Way Places
Palavras-chave:
juventude, mundanismo, cosmopolitanismo, Manjaco, Guiné-Bissau, Lauje, SulawesiResumo
This paper looks at such youthful cosmopolitan aspirations among Manjaco of Guinea-Bissau and Lauje in Sulawesi. It is often argued that these attempts at worldliness reflect claims for equal rights of membership in an unequal global society. Yet, an aspiration to worldliness also entails their assertion that we are, or at least should be, like them. This paper suggests that Manjaco and Lauje might seem to want to look like us but they talk very differently about what they expect of us in a world we mutually make.Referências
Appadurai, Arjun (1996). Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2006). Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers. New York, W. W. Norton.
Berman, Marshall (1982). All that is solid melts into air. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Clifford, James (1997). Routes: Travel and translation in the late twentieth century. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Ferguson, James (2002). “Of mimicry and membership: Africans and the «New World Society»”, Cultural Anthropology, 17 (4), 551-569.
Ferguson, James (1999). Expectations of modernity: Myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press.
Ferguson, James (1997). “The country and the city in the Copperbelt”, in Culture, power, place: Explorations in critical Anthropology. Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson (eds.) Durham, Duke University Press.
Gable, Eric (2006). “The funeral and modernity in Manjaco”, Cultural Anthropology, 21 (3), 385-415.
DOI : 10.1525/can.2006.21.3.385
Gable, Eric (2002). “An anthropologist’s (new?) dress code: Some brief comments on a comparative cosmopolitanism”, Cultural Anthropology, 17 (4), 572-579.
Gable, Eric (1995). “The decolonization of consciousness: Local skeptics and the «will to be modern» in a West African village”, American Ethnologist, 22 (2), 242-257.
DOI : 10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00020
Grossberg, Lawrence, Nelson Cary and Paula Treichler (eds.) (1992). Cultural Studies. New York, Routledge.
Hannerz, Ulf (1996). Transnational connections: Culture, people, places. New York, Routledge.
Hebdige, Dick (1979). Subculture: The meaning of style. New York, Routledge.
DOI : 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1995.tb01063.x
Hoggart, Richard (1958). The uses of literacy. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Mignolo, Walter D. (2002). “The many faces of cosmo-polis: Border thinking and critical cosmopolitanism”, in Breckenridge, Carol A. et al. (eds.), Cosmopolitanism. Durham, Duke University Press.
Ortner, Sherry (ed.) (1999). The fate of “culture”: Geertz and beyond. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Ortner, Sherry (1995). “Resistance and the problem of ethnographic refusal”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (1), 173-193.
Sahlins, Marshall (1999). “Two or three things I know about culture”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5, 399-421.
DOI : 10.2307/2661275
Downloads
Publicado
Edição
Secção
Licença
Autorizo a publicação do artigo/recensão submetido do qual sou autor.
Declaro ainda que o presente artigo é original, que não foi objecto de qualquer tipo de publicação, e cedo em exclusivo os direitos de publicação à revista Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. A reprodução do artigo, no todo ou em parte, noutras publicações ou noutros suportes depende de autorização prévia da editora Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
