ISBN : 2738483542
'DOGS BREAKING THEIR LEASH':
Filip De Boeck
Introduction
Twenty years ago, someone like Henri Lefebvre, in
his acclaimed work The ProdtKtion of Space, could still,
somewhat naively, write:'Much as they might like to,
anthropologists cannot hide the fact that the space and
tendencies of modernity (i.e. of modern capitalism) will
never be discovered either in Kenya or among French or
any other peasants' (Lefébvre 1991 [1974]: 123). Lefebvre
thereby continued a long modernist tradition which is
characterised by its conceptualisation of the world within a
polarised framework, opposing, for exa