Arjun Appadurai
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Arjun Appadurai's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors History St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization. He is the former University of Chicago professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Humanities Dean of the University of Chicago, director of the city center and globalization at Yale University, and the Education and Human Development Studies professor at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture.
Arjun Appadurai's Published Works
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Published Works
- Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996) (12780)
- Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990) (6037)
- The Social Life of Things (1986) (3114)
- The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value (1986) (2795)
- The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. (1988) (2506)
- Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics (2001) (1167)
- Fear of small numbers : an essay on the geography of anger (2006) (861)
- Cities and Citizenship (1996) (813)
- Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination (2000) (761)
- is homo hierarchicus (1986) (710)
- gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia (1981) (672)
- The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (2013) (643)
- How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India (1988) (568)
- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place (1988) (374)
- The Past as a Scarce Resource (1981) (323)
- Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization (1998) (277)
- Patriotism and Its Futures (1993) (257)
- Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai (2000) (252)
- Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery (1986) (249)
- Fear of Small Numbers (2020) (237)
- Why Public Culture (1988) (229)
- The right to research (2006) (217)
- Commodities and the politics of value (2012) (212)
- Introduction: Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory (1988) (205)
- GLOBAL ETHNOSCAPES Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology (2013) (162)
- GLOBAL ETHNOSCAPES Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology (2013) (162)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case (1981) (151)
- The south Indian temple: authority, honour and redistribution (1976) (150)
- Globalization and the research imagination (1999) (145)
- Mediants, materiality, normativity (2015) (137)
- The Ghost in the Financial Machine (2011) (99)
- Public Modernity in India (2016) (87)
- The future of advertising and the value of social network websites: some preliminary examinations (2007) (83)
- The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique (2002) (75)
- The thing itself (2006) (72)
- The Spirit of Calculation (2012) (70)
- How Moral Is South Asia's Economy?— A Review Article (1984) (70)
- Gratitude as a Social Mode in South India (1985) (68)
- Right and Left Hand Castes in South India (1974) (66)
- Kings, Sects and Temples in South India, 1350-1700 A.D (1977) (60)
- Introduction: Cities and Citizenship (2012) (60)
- The globalization of archaeology and heritage (2001) (56)
- The Colonial Backdrop (1997) (54)
- Discussion: Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization (1997) (54)
- Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance (2010) (52)
- The Heart of Whiteness (1993) (49)
- Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket (2015) (45)
- Information is Alive : Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data (2003) (38)
- Hope and democracy (2007) (38)
- How Histories make Geographies (2010) (37)
- Banking on Words (2015) (36)
- Why enumeration counts (2012) (35)
- Technology and the reproduction of values in rural western India. (1990) (33)
- How Histories Make Geographies : Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective (2010) (27)
- The Production of Locality (2018) (25)
- Higher Education's Coming Leadership Crisis. (2009) (22)
- Afterword: The Dreamwork of Capitalism (2016) (19)
- Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India (2019) (16)
- Traumatic Exit, Identity Narratives, and the Ethics of Hospitality (2019) (16)
- Success and failure in the deliberative economy (2015) (14)
- Thinking beyond Trajectorism (2012) (14)
- Slum as theory: the South/Asian city and globalization (2006) (14)
- Diversity and disciplinarity as cultural artifacts (2013) (14)
- Full Attachment (2007) (13)
- The COVID exception (2020) (13)
- Negotiating a Passage Between Disciplinary Borders : A Symposium (2002) (12)
- Editorial Comment: On Thinking the Black Public Sphere (1994) (11)
- The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination (interview with Arjen Mulder) (2010) (10)
- Museums are Good to Think (2017) (9)
- Self-Development and Social Transformations?: The Vision and Practice of the Self-Study Mobilization of Swadhyaya (2008) (9)
- Commodities in cultural perspective (2007) (8)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Kings, sects, and temples: South Indian Śrī Vaisnavism, 1350–1700 (1981) (8)
- The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (7)
- Housing and Hope (2013) (6)
- Decoding Diaspora and Disjuncture (2011) (6)
- Wells in Western India: irrigation and cooperation in an agricultural society (1984) (5)
- Arjun Appadurai (2014) (5)
- Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion (2015) (5)
- The Academic Digital Divide and Uneven Global Development (2016) (5)
- Editorial Comment: On Theory's Empire (1993) (5)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Preface (1981) (4)
- Mission Statement Responses (2013) (4)
- The Ready-Made Pleasures of Déjà Vu: Repeat Viewing of Bollywood Films (2019) (4)
- Corruption, scale and governance in India (2015) (3)
- Moodswings in the anthropology of the emerging future (2016) (3)
- Interview with Arjun Appadurai (2010) (3)
- The social life of things: Preface (1986) (3)
- Our Gandhi, our times (2011) (3)
- Globalization and the Rush to History (2020) (3)
- Museum Objects as Accidental Refugees (2017) (2)
- Globalization, Anthropology of (2015) (2)
- The morality of refusal (2011) (2)
- Trump and the death of the Image (2020) (2)
- The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination (2021) (2)
- Museums and the Savage Sublime (2020) (1)
- Multiculturalism And Dialogue in a Globalizing World (2013) (1)
- The Scarcity of Social Futures in the Digital Era (2021) (1)
- “What’s Hard for the Eye to See”: Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun (2008) (1)
- Entrevista com Arjun Appadurai Interview with Arjun Appadurai (2010) (1)
- Contributions to South Asian Studies 1. GOPAL KRISHNA, ed (1981) (1)
- Royal rituals and cultural change (1981) (1)
- History and Epistemology of Anthropology (2015) (1)
- Conjunctures: Who Counts, What Circulates, and the Politics of Children (2021) (1)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Note on transliteration (1981) (1)
- How to kill a democracy (2021) (1)
- Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics (2019) (1)
- Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship (2010) (1)
- Du Wanxiang: The Rosy Glow of the Good Communist (2002) (1)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: The South Indian temple: cultural model and historical problem (1981) (1)
- Modernity At Large Cultural Dimensions Of Globalization Arjun Appadurai (2019) (0)
- Endangered Scholars Worldwide (2016) (0)
- 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood (2019) (0)
- Comments: Axel Michaels’s article (2020) (0)
- Writing the Self: The Romance of the Personal (2002) (0)
- Back Matter (1993) (0)
- THE TRANSFORMATION OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE CULTURAL PRACTICES OF UKRAINE (0)
- The dawn of everything? (2022) (0)
- Babies and Forceps (1999) (0)
- A Note on Usage (2008) (0)
- Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV (2010) (0)
- Crocodiles and Wealth (1999) (0)
- Crafting Resourceful Bodies and Achieving Identities (2003) (0)
- The Working Body as a Civic Image (2008) (0)
- Endangered Scholars Worldwide (2022) (0)
- Life after Debt (2020) (0)
- Things to Come: Emergent Regimes of Materiality (1999) (0)
- Comments on van der Veer’s Paper on “The Future of Utopia” (2016) (0)
- Book Notes (2002) (0)
- Doctors and Airplanes (1999) (0)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Introduction (1981) (0)
- “Delicately Built”: The “Problem” of Working Women in Pittsburgh (2008) (0)
- Solidarity's Fragilities (2023) (0)
- Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out (2010) (0)
- The Cosmos and the Polis (2021) (0)
- CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND BIODIVERSITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1 CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND BIODIVERSITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (2004) (0)
- Dining and Surgery (1999) (0)
- Justice Hutchins's scheme of 1885 (1981) (0)
- Book review: the books that inspired Arjun Appadurai: “I expect Max Weber’s The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism to be my companion for many more years to come” (2012) (0)
- On the Uddered Breast (2020) (0)
- The cinematic soteriology of Bollywood 1 (2017) (0)
- Excess and Deficiency (2002) (0)
- Nalini Malani & Arjun Appadurai : the morality of refusal = Die Moral der Verweigerung (2011) (0)
- The Speculative City: Cases from Kinshasa and Mumbai. (2011) (0)
- The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence (2008) (0)
- The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh (2008) (0)
- Aquinas, St. Thomas. Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. Ed. Anton C. Pegis. New York: Modem Library. 1945 Arac, Jonathan. Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies-New York: Columbia UP, 1987 Arendt, Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism. Cleveland: World Publishin (1995) (0)
- The Pathological Body: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture (2008) (0)
- Nalini Malani : in search of vanished blood (2012) (0)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: British rule and temple politics, 1700–1826 (1981) (0)
- From Ethnocide to Ideocide (2006) (0)
- Editor's Note (2000) (0)
- Final judicial scheme of management, 1925 (1981) (0)
- THE EASTERN AND THE IMAGINED: DEFENDING THE REALM OF THE CULTURAL IN THE GLOBAL (2009) (0)
- In Fitness and in Health (2003) (0)
- Loneliness Is No Longer What It Used to Be (2022) (0)
- Globalization and Violence (2006) (0)
- Worship and conflict in South India : the case of the Srī Pārtasārati Svāmi Temple, 1800-1973 (1976) (0)
- Violence and Anger in the Age of Globalization: An Interview with Arjun Appadurai (2007) (0)
- A Feast for the Mind (2002) (0)
- Fear of small disciplines: India’s battle against creative thought (2021) (0)
- Introductive Remarks : the Past is Today (2015) (0)
- Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg (2020) (0)
- EAST INDIANS IN THE CARIBBEAN Transients to Settlers: The Experience of Indians in Jamaica 1845-J950 (2006) (0)
- Editors' Letter: A Critique of Pure Dumbfoundedness (2022) (0)
- The Literature of Derivative Finance (2020) (0)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Rethinking the present: some contextual implications (1981) (0)
- Grassroots Globalization in the Era of Ideocide (2006) (0)
- Selected Books Received (1984) (0)
- Our Terrorists, Ourselves (2006) (0)
- Entrevista a Arjun Appadurai (2009) (0)
- Minimal Mothers and Psychiatric Discourse about the Family (2003) (0)
- European self-making and India’s alternative modernities (2019) (0)
- The Civilization of Clashes (2006) (0)
- Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead (2008) (0)
- Democracy without Freedom (2022) (0)
- Mediants and the Making of Narrative Assemblages (2019) (0)
- Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self (2010) (0)
- Response for Forum in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2019) (0)
- Art under Neoliberalism (2021) (0)
- Guest Editor's Introduction (2004) (0)
- Asian Stars in Atlanticland (2016) (0)
- Nurses and Bicycles (1999) (0)
- A Narrative Approach to Anorexia (2003) (0)
- “Typical Patients Are Not ‘Borderline’”: Embedded Constructs of Race, Ethnicity, and Class (2003) (0)
- Sexual Science: The Representation of Behavior (2002) (0)
- Speculation, After the Fact (2015) (0)
- Modi's visit to silicon valley (2015) (0)
- The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty (2010) (0)
- Soldiers of God: Together and Apart (2010) (0)
- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Mission Statement (2013) (0)
- Introduction: Côte-d’Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS (2010) (0)
- Litigation and the politics of sectarian control, 1878–1925 (1981) (0)
- Twenty Days into the War (1991) (0)
- Lei Feng, Tireless Servant of the People (2002) (0)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: From bureaucracy to judiciary, 1826–1878 (1981) (0)
- Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body (2008) (0)
- Editors’ Letter (2020) (0)
- Harassment of Ashis Nandy (2008) (0)
- Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: Bibliography (1981) (0)
- Thomas Antony Zwicker (1957–1985) (1986) (0)
- Rules and regulations of 1800 (1981) (0)
- Hierarchy, Power, and Gender in the “Therapeutic Family” (2003) (0)
- Movement after Randy Martin (2015) (0)
- Testifying and Teaching (2010) (0)
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