Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. Wall Street and Silicon Valley—the two worlds this book examines—promo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory, ISBN-13: 9781914363061)
Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism. This collection of essays on early 1980s India is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. It offers a close look at an agrarian society at the piv...Loe edasi...
Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. Wall Street and Silicon Valley—the two worlds this book examines—promo...Loe edasi...
Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. Wall Street and Silicon Valley—the two worlds this book examines—promo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: V & A Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781851779079)
Future Design looks at the very cutting edge of technology and its impact on everyday life, from radical projections for shaping the planet over the next thousand years to changes taking place right on the end of your street tomorrow. Exa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226318639)
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226318776)
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781844679836)
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Presents an analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror, and materiality. This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781844679829)
Acclaimed author presents a decades research toward creating an anthropology of the future. This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), is the product of ten years’ research and writing, constituti...Loe edasi...
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In his essay, Arjun Appadurai reflects on the significance of Gandhis ideas on non-violence as a form of political action in India, pursuing the thesis that Gandhis thought and practices exhibit a double genealogy. While one genealogy is related to...Loe edasi...
Self-development of individuals and societies is an epochal challenge now but surprisingly very little has been written about this in the vast field of development studies and social sciences. The present book is one of the first efforts in this fiel...Loe edasi...
Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2006, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822338635)
Argues that the many forms of ethnic violence around the world, both internal and transnational, need to be seen in the context of globalization....Loe edasi...
