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Progress the Balance: Mythologies of Development Santos, Brazil
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Progress the Balance: Mythologies of Development Santos, Brazil
Current price: $130.00
Barnes and Noble
Progress the Balance: Mythologies of Development Santos, Brazil
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Each chapter outlines a particular episode in the history of Santos, a city undergoing an unprecedented period of economic and political turmoil, as it is represented in public culture, mainly through museums, monuments, art, and public events. Drawing on the anthropology of myth, Reichman proposes a model that he refers to as a "clash of timescapes."
shows how this concept of "progress" requires a different temporal structure that separates sacralized social change from mundane historical events.