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In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence in a broad global perspective.Tags
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Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and' a senior fellow of the Institute for Public Knowledge. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Social Life of Things and The Future as Cultural Fact.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
- Original publication date
- 1996
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce
- LCC
- HM101 .A644 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology These are obsolete numbers no longer used
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- 5 — English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
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- 1
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- 3
