Format:
1 online resource (244 pages)
ISBN:
9780816687350
Series Statement:
Public Worlds
Content:
In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence in a broad global perspective.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Here and Now -- Part I: Global Flows -- 2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy -- 3 Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology -- 4 Consumption, Duration, and History -- Part II: Modern Colonies -- 5 Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket -- 6 Number in the Colonial Imagination -- Part III: Postnational Locations -- 7 Life after Primordialism -- 8 Patriotism and Its Futures -- 9 The Production of Locality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816627929
Additional Edition:
Druck-Ausgabe Erscheint auch als ISBN 9780816627929
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Modernity at Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Appadurai, Arjun 1949-
