Making modernity asscountable: A case study of youth in Mozambique

According to the philosopher Stephen Toulmin there is a standard account of modernity which gives primacy to the written over the oral, the universal over the particular, the general over the local and the timeless over the timely. This paper draws from Toulmin to argue that accounts of modernity in...

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Main Author: Elísio Macamo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2010-05-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/73