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Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, Vol. 1) Paperback – November 15, 1996

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Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world.

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global perspective.

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 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.

Appadurai simultaneously explores and explodes boundaries-between how we imagine the world and how that imagination influences our self-understanding, between social institutions and their effects on the people who participate in them, between nations and peoples that seem to be ever more homogeneous and yet ever more filled with differences. Modernity at Large offers a path to move beyond traditional oppositions between culture and power, tradition and modernity, global and local, pointing out the vital role imagination plays in our construction of the world of today-and tomorrow.

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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.

About the Author

Arjun Appadurai is director of the Chicago Humanities Institute and Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor of Anthropology, both at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981) and editor of The Social Life of Things (1986).

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0816627932
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Minnesota Press; First Edition (November 15, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780816627936
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0816627936
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.88 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Since I wrote my last review, mentioning the difference between the advertised quality ("very good") and the state of the pre-owned book that was delivered, the distributor contacted me with an apology and also voluntarily issued me a refund. This led me to increase my rating.

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With "Modernity at Large" Appadurai created a widely acknowledged groundwork for a viable perspective on globalization. This little book is a very thorough description about what is going on and changing in the world around us. Additionally, it provides numerous details and examples from all over the world - each of which could be developed even further. It should be read by everyone, who is afraid globalization is erasing the cultural diversity of this world.

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A interesting presentation of the role of the post-modern

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The author talks about the role of the culture into the post-modern society.
He starts from the Weber phylosophy for a rationality of the ethic values.
But he also substains a shift by a culture as substance to a culture as dimension of the differences.
If we consider the links between immagination and true life, we must think to the global trends in a no very simple way.
The etnography redefines the social roots whom relate us to the phoenomena about the consume society.

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Excellent condition; Great book! I ordered as a book review assignment for my grad program and loved the book!

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This book is a complex scholarly work. Know what your getting into before buying it! But once you begin to fathom it, Its sheer GENIUS.

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Gut zu lesen und absolut augenöffnend. Mittlerweile ein Muss für Studierende der Geisteswissenschaften. Und es macht Spaß mit diesem Buch das Hinterfragen von vermeintlich Gegebenem zu lehren.

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