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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1)

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Title: Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1)
by Arjun Appadurai
ISBN: 0-8166-2793-2
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $18.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Required Reading
Comment: This brilliant book makes a fundamental contribution to how globalization works. It is required reading not just for anthropologists but for economists, political scientists and others trying to grapple with the rapidity of cross-national economic, cultural and demographic flows in the contemporary world.

Rating: 5
Summary: A new, refreshing, and essential approach
Comment: Professor Appadurai writes with an understanding, clarity, and erudition that is rare among scholars in any discipline. In a small, densely packed, smoothly written text, he provides anthropology and sociology with a powerful set of theoretical tools and concepts with which to grasp modernity and globalization. Like de Certeau, Appadurai examines aspects of intimate, everyday life in minute detail, but like Giddens and Lash, his reach is global. This book provides the integration of perspectives that anthropology desperately needs in order to finally become relevant in the twenty-first century. It is a wake-up call, a gift, and a masterpiece. No one seriously practicing anthropology in the high-modern era should fail to acquaint themselves with this rare gem of a book.

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best explanations
Comment: Dr. Appadurai's explanation on how fast things are changing is amazing. When he uses the concept of scapes he gives a new and profound explanation to the social and cultural phenomena that have been happening. By explaining Modernity, he states that time and space is contracting and giving us the idea on how things were and will be. Modernity is at large 'cause now exceeds the national frontiers.

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