Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization / Edition 1

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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780816627936
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1996
  • Series: Public Worlds Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 229
  • Sales rank: 622,519
  • Product dimensions: 5.88 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

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
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