Auteur: Arjun Appadurai

We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia …

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 expressiv …

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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 pr …

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 pr …

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 …

Los críticos del capitalismo financiero lo presentan como una bestia negra y destructora, que genera ganancias extraordinarias mientras toda la estructura de la ‘economía real’ (dueños del capital, t …

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 …

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 Prakt …

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 s …

Wer scheitert und das neoliberale Glücksversprechen nicht einlöst, fühlt sich oft selbst dafür verantwortlich. Dabei ist es das System, das versagt: Die Tech- und die Finanzbranche straucheln, Entgre …

A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos p …

   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 Pr …

A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose …

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 debat …

Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains– …

Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen …

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. W …

In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way t …

By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technolog …

In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations …

The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his e …

In 2002, the University of Alabama’s Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflec …