Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

'Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalisation, 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 globalisation, which is characterised 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.' (Back cover)

Access level

Onsite

author

Arjun APPADURAI

publisher

University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, United States)

Location code

REF.APA

Language

English

Keywords

globalisation, identity, colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, modernity, anthropology

Publication/Creation date

1996

No of pages

248

ISBN / ISSN

9780816627936

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

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 Decolonisation of Indian Cricket

Number in the Colonial Imagination

Part III Postnational Locations

Life after Primordalism

Patriotism and Its Futures

The Producation of Locality

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

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