A. Appadurai

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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or an argument about 'commoditization', and very often the two arguments are closely linked. What…
The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
This essay has two aims. The first is to preview and set the context for the essays that follow it in this volume. The second is to propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in…
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
lobalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and…
The Social Life of Things
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume…
The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai…
Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics
Post-1989, the world seems marked by the global victory of some version of neoliberalism, backed by the ubiquitous presence of the United States and sustained by the common openness to market…
How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India
Cookbooks, which usually belong to the humble literature of complex civilizations, tell unusual cultural tales. They combine the sturdy pragmatic virtues of all manuals with the vicarious pleasures…
gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia
The general semiotic properties of food take particularly intense forms in the context of gastro-politics – where food is the medium, and sometimes the message, of conflict. In South Asia, where…
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