Authors: Arjun Appadurai
ISBN-13: 9780816627936, ISBN-10: 0816627932
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the win forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patters, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images--of lifestyles, popular culture, and self-representation--circulate internationally through the media and are often borrowed in surprising (to their originators) and inventive fashions.
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Here and Now | 1 |
2 | Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy | 27 |
3 | Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology | 48 |
4 | Consumption, Duration, and History | 66 |
5 | Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket | 89 |
6 | Number in the Colonial Imagination | 114 |
7 | Life after Primordialism | 139 |
8 | Patriotism and Its Futures | 158 |
9 | The Production of Locality | 178 |
Notes | 201 | |
Bibliography | 205 | |
Index | 219 |