Beschreibung:
The book reconsiders definitional relationships of `national character¿ and `national heritage¿ in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries.
1. Ethnographic Fiction and Autobiographical 'Truth' 2. Orientalist Vision and the Carnivalesque of 'Revelations' 3. Foreground to Background: From Locality to 'Nation' 4. 'The Winner Takes it All': The Coming of Second Modernity 5. The Original Theft (and other treacherous religiosities) 6. Leviathan Revealed