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| Especially important to my project are Pratt's contention that the discourse of modernity is the identity discourse of Northern Europe and North America and its resulting corollaries that call our attention to "the diffusionist character of modernity" and "the centrism of the metropolitan discourse on modernity" (23, 28). The diffusionist assumption that both views share was briefly challenged around 1900, when a team of Cambridge anthropologists led by Alfred Cort Haddon suggested that the differences between the savage and the civilized were not the product of evolutionary distance but instead of different social and physical environments. Rather than a simple diffusionist model flowing out of the hegemonic capital, he tells a cautionary tale in his finding of a constant interplay between the dominant power and its dependent cities -- with local elites, powerful landed families, and professionals a t the only university town of Padua often defying the logic of political and economic control through expression of cultural independence. |
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