The Future as Cultural Fact Author:Arjun Appadurai Acclaimed author presents a decade's 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, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the p... more »resent era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality. Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on first-hand research among urban slum-dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality. Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the ?politics of hope? and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.« less
The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members!
Retail Price:$29.95 Buy New (Paperback): $21.19 (save 29%) or Become a PBS member and pay $17.29+1 PBS book credit (save 42%)