Arjun Appadurai lives in Berlin and teaches at New York University and the Bard Graduate Center, where he has been appointed the Max Weber Global Professor. A pair of books—one by Walter Mignolo and ...

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 ...

Parts of the text of this book was originally published in vol. 12, no. 1 and 3 of Public culture. Contents Grassroots globalization and the research imagination / Arjun Appadurai -- At the edge of ...

Indian cinema, especially in its dominant Bollywood form, is usually seen as a debased commercial art form, largely derivative of Hollywood and primarily a vehicle of mass entertainment which is ...

Appadurai is an Indian-Amerian anthropologist, a world-renowned expert on the cultural dynamics of globalization and the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and ...