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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Banking on Words

    The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

    by Arjun Appadurai ...
    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, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fear of Small Numbers

    An Essay on the Geography of Anger

    by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner, Arjun Appadurai, Ph.D. ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Failure

    by Arjun Appadurai, Neta Alexander ...
    Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret A. Mills ...
    Series series South Asia Seminar
    The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    by Ari Larissa Heinrich, Arjun Appadurai, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Bodies of Work

    Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

    by Edward Slavishak, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Feeding Anorexia

    Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

    by Helen Gremillion, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Globalization

    by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Touré Mandémory ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    by Nancy Rose Hunt, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Appetites

    Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

    by Judith Farquhar, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret A. Mills ...
    Series series South Asia Seminar
    The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD