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The Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Häftad, 1988
399 kr
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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and …
Nalini Malani & Arjun Appadurai
Die Moral der Verweigerung(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 023)
Av Nalini Malani, Arjun Appadurai
E-bok, 2023
58 kr
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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 Denken und seine Praktiken eine doppelte Genealogie aufweisen. Während die eine Genealogie in Beziehung zu indischen …
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Häftad, 2006
273 kr
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The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of …
Banking on Words
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Inbunden, 2015
883 kr
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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 greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking-was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this …
Banking on Words
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Häftad, 2015
237 kr
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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 greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking-was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this …
Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
E-bok, 1988
431 kr
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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and …
Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule
A South Indian Case
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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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 …
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Av Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
502 kr
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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 rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Modernity at Large
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Häftad, 1996
252 kr
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Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world.The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look …
Globalization
Inbunden, 2001
1798 kr
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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 increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what …
Globalization
E-bok, 2001
637 kr
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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 increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what …
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
E-bok, 2006
407 kr
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The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of …
Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
E-bok, 1988
431 kr
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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and …
Failure
Av Arjun Appadurai, Neta Alexander
Inbunden, 2019
540 kr
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and …
Failure
Av Arjun Appadurai, Neta Alexander
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and …
Failure
Av Neta Alexander, Arjun Appadurai
E-bok, 2019
214 kr
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and …
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Av Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
668 kr
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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 rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Future as Cultural Fact
Essays on the Global Condition
E-bok, 2020
170 kr
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This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers , is the product of ten years'' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of …
Future as Cultural Fact
Essays on the Global Condition
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
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This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of …
Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism
A Rural Ontology from Western India
Häftad, 2024
229 kr
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Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism.This collection of essays by Arjun Appadurai based on his fieldwork in rural Maharashtra, India, in the early 1980s is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. In conversation with agronomists, economists, and …
Versagen
Scheitern im Neoliberalismus
Av Neta Alexander, Arjun Appadurai
E-bok, 2023
179 kr
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Technologie ist immer effektiv, der Zugang zu Informationen unbegrenzt, und Banken sind »too big to fail« – dieser Mythos des Kapitalismus ist so wirkmächtig wie falsch. Das Finanzsystem hat sich von seiner globalen, mit Steuern notdürftig gekitteten Krise nie erholt. Geld ist nichts mehr wert, …
El futuro como hecho cultural
Ensayos sobre la condición global
Av Silvia Villegas, Arjun Appadurai
E-bok, 2012
204 kr
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En esta serie de ensayos sobre la violencia, la mercantilización, el nacionalismo, el terror y la materialidad, el autor ofrece un amplio enfoque analítico de nuestra condición global actual. Además que adopta la "política de la esperanza" y sienta las bases para una antropología del futuro, …
India's World
The Politics of Creativity in a Globalized Society
Av Arjun Appadurai, Arien Mack
Inbunden, 2012
518 kr
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