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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Self-Development and Social Transformations?
Self-development of individuals and societies is an epochal challenge now but surprisingly very little has been written about this in the vast field of development studies and …
Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism
Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism. This collection of essays on early 1980s India is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. …
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 …