Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization / Arjun Appadurai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-

Series:

Public worlds ; v. 1.

Public worlds ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Culture.

Ethnicity.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence in a broad global perspective.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Here and Now; Part I: Global Flows; 2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy; 3 Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology; 4 Consumption, Duration, and History; Part II: Modern Colonies; 5 Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; 6 Number in the Colonial Imagination; Part III: Postnational Locations; 7 Life after Primordialism; 8 Patriotism and Its Futures; 9 The Production of Locality; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-8735-8

OCLC:

227038279

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06472 hdl