Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization

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Title:

Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization

Author:

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-

ISBN:

9780816627929

9780816627936

Personal Author:

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xi, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Public worlds ; v. 1

Public worlds ; v. 1.

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.

Subject Term:

Culture.

Civilization, Modern -- 1950-

Ethnicity.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Electronic Access:

ACLS Humanities E-Book http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06472
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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.