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Modernity at Large Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Paperback • 1996 • English

Modernity at Large Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

By Arjun Appadurai

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About the book

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, deb...Show more

Interdisciplinary studies
Migration, immigration and emigration
Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge

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ISBN

9780816627936

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Modernity at Large Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Format

Paperback

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