books by Arjun Appadurai

books by Arjun Appadurai

books:

Arjun Appadurai

Globalization (A Public Culture Book)

Duke University Press, 2001

Not just for Acedemics..........or Acedemia.
Mr Appadurai's book "Globalisation", should not be considered a purely "Acedemic" book, which is primarily one of it's most important functions. This book can & does reach a wider audience of those interested in the social, political & cultural emergence of ...

Information Is Alive: Art And Theory On Archiving And Retrieving Data
Arjun Appadurai, Joke Brouwer, ...

NAi Publishers, 2003

The archive has of late proven to be a powerful metaphor: history is viewed as an archive of facts from which one can draw at will; our bodies have become a genetic archive since being digitally opened up in the human genome project; our language is an archive of meanings that can be unlocked using philological tools; and the unconscious is an ...

Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India

Akhil Gupta

Duke University Press, 1998

a huge success - no more famines
The book is fundamentally one of a huge historical success. For the first time in its history, India was able to adequately feed its huge population. There have not been famines for decades. The text has details about how agriculture developed, after the British ...

Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet)

Arjun Appadurai

Duke University Press, 2006

Terror and the fear of 'difference'
Appadurai draws on his former work on globalization in Modernity at Large, to propose a set of exciting and innovatively original reflections on the agendas set by post-September 11. The way terrorism is a sequel to former globalizing tendencies, and has been used in ...

Feelings Always Local
Arjun Appadurai, Joke Brouwer, ...

NAi Publishers/V2_Organization, 2005

Interactive art organizes itself as an open system: it preserves its coherence by exchanging matter, energy, and information with the environment. In that manner, interactive art is art whose state of rest must be disturbed before it can become art at all. Yet, it is precisely this instability makes it ever more complex. Feelings are Always Local ...

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1)

Arjun Appadurai

University of Minnesota Press, 1996

An ambitious attempt, and some provocative thinking
Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, ...

The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural ...

Cambridge University Press, 1988

Interesting
This collection of essays is insightful but far from comprehensive, a good starting point for further discussion on commodification.

Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Arjun Appadurai

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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 Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient ...

Fear of Small Numbers
Arjun Appadurai

Duke Univ Pr, 2006

Keys of 21st Century (Pilosopher's Library)
Koichiro Matsuura, Arjun Appadurai, ...

Unesco, 2004

With a Preface by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO. Are we prepared for the 21st century? There is room for doubt. The future seems increasingly uncertain, hard to decipher, ambiguous in its very indeterminism, sometime frankly illegible. If it is impossible to predict the future, one can at least help to shape it. To respond in a ...