Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Arjun Appadurai
yhteensä 23 hakutulosta
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 …
Modernity at Large
Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in …
Globalization
This collection of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalization in various locales. It focuses in particular on the way that changing sites are the …
Fear of Small Numbers
Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, this work describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the …
Banking on Words
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 …
The Future as Cultural Fact
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution …
Future as Cultural Fact
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution …
Fear of Small Numbers
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 …
Vredens geografi : rädslan för de fåtaliga
Att massorna har kapacitet att ingjuta fruktan är känt sedan länge. Men hur kommer det sig att vi i dagens liberala stater bevittnar en allt mer utpräglad rädsla för de fåtaliga …
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
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 …