Modernity at large: cultural dimensions of globalization.

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-

Editore: Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1997

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PAPERBACK, very good, appears little used if at all. APPADURAI, ARJUN. Modernity at large: cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, 3d printing, xi, 229pp., . Series: Public worlds, volume 1. - "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 to current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the twin forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, 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." - CONTENTS: Here and now -- Part I; Global flows. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy ; Global ethnoscapes: notes and queries for a transnational anthropology ; Consumption, duration, and history -- Part II: Modern colonies. Playing with modernity: the decolonization of Indian cricket ; Number in the colonial imagination -- Part III: Postnational locations. Life after primordialism ; Patriotism and its futures ; The production of locality. ISBN 0816627932.

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• Titolo: Modernity at large: cultural dimensions of globalization.
• Editore: Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1997
• Rilegatura: Brossura