The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cu... more

our collective hope. Limitless is the first story anthology from Alok Appadurai, founder of Uplift Millions. This...... more

’Appadurai Muttulingam’s short stories, translated from Tamil to English, are little jewels packed with many riches...... more

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that...... more

understands the issues. In his special blend of analysis, humor and wit, Samy Appadurai offers up an intelligent discussion of...... more

understands the issues. In his special blend of analysis, humor and wit, Samy Appadurai offers up an intelligent discussion of...... more

Self-development of individuals and societies is an epochal challenge now but surprisingly very litt... more

within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case...... more

violence against civilian populations on the other? Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A...... more

Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to...... more

Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Com... more

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties ... more

There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Isr... more

A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Afr... more

In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subj... more

This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Sahara... more

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is t... more

The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on th... more

。 作者簡介 阿君.阿帕度萊 (Arjun Appadurai) 現任紐約大學斯坦哈特(Steinhardt)學院文化、教育與人類發展學系教授。曾任新學院 (The New School) 全球倡議 (Global Initiatives)資深...... more

cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global perspective...... more

be eliminated in the age of seamless flow. Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic...... more

, including Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Slavoj Zizek, Zygmunt Bauman, Arjun Appadurai, Wolfgang Streeck and Eva Illouz, grapple...... more

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that...... more

research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look...... more

One of India s most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, w... more

Arjun Appadurai s reflections on Gandhi s ideas of non-violence are augmented by Nalini Malani s drawings....... more

The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspect... more

Scholars and thinkers at the forefront of cultural debate bring global perspectives to bear on the i... more

violence against civilian populations on the other? Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai s answer to that question. A...... more

Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to...... more

Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anor... more

Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Com... more

Judith Farquhar s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoro... more

Judith Farquhar s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoro... more

embodied locally. Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Jean Fran ois Bayart, J r me Bind , N stor Garc a Canclini, Leo Ching, Steven...... more

embodied locally. Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Jean Fran ois Bayart, J r me Bind , N stor Garc a Canclini, Leo Ching, Steven...... more

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties ... more

There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Isr... more

In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique sig... more

Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to th... more

Western medicine--especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice--is widely ... more

How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigeno... more

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism. This collection of essays on early 1980s... more