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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. …
Nalini Malani & Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai reflektiert in seiner Abhandlung den Stellenwert der Ideen Gandhis zur Gewaltlosigkeit als Form politischen Handelns in Indien und verfolgt die These, dass sein …
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 …
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 …
The Future Starts Here
What makes us human? We are all connected but do we feel lonely? Does democracy still work? Are cities for everyone? Should the planet be a design project? If Mars is the …
Globalization
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 …
Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule
Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor …
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 …
Globalization
This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization, which …