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- Title: Prathama Banerjee, Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-Writing in a Colonial Society (Book Review)
- Author : Anthropological Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
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Prathama Banerjee, Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-writing in a Colonial Society. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. 284 pp. In Politics of Time Prathama Banerjee examines the interrelated processess of constituting the "historical," and constructing the "primitive in colonial Bengal. Banerjee's contends that this "counterpoise" is not a simplistic oppositional set up but that it is through these two processes that the condition of colonial modernity is brought about; colonialism being, in her estimation, the only context though which the temporality of the modern is possible to articulate. Throughout the work the author highlights themes in the foundation and orientation of this colonial modernity--the expression of time in terms of spatial differentiation, the imposition of money-rationality in the production of a future-oriented sensibility, and the harnessing of time to the domain of knowledge over that of contingent practice.
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