Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the win forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patters, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images--of lifestyles,...

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites--local, regional, diasporic--are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of...

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites--local, regional, diasporic--are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of...

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?

"Fear of Small Numbers" is Arjun Appadurai s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale,...

This study interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India.

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills, Editors The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. South Asia Seminar 1991 464 pages 6 x 9 7 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1337-9 Paper $27.50s 18.00 World Rights Anthropology

Arjun Appadurai ist einer der renommiertesten Anthropologen der Gegenwart. Mit Die Geographie des Zorns liegt nun eines seiner wichtigsten Werke erstmals auf deutsch vor. Appadurai beschftigt sich mit der Dialektik der Globalisierung: Whr die Jahre nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer einerseits eine Zeit der Demokratisierung und der weltweiten Angleichung von Instutitionen waren, erlebten wir beispiellose Exzesse der Gewalt: den Vlkermord in Ruanda, die Brgerkriege auf dem Balkan, die Anschlge des 11. September. Angesichts der drohen kulturellen Homogenisierung erwacht einNarzimus der...

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008-while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking-was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With incisive argumentation, he analyzes this challengingly technical world, drawing on thinkers such as...

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008-while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking-was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With incisive argumentation, he analyzes this challengingly technical world, drawing on thinkers such as...