Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist known for his influential theoretical work on globalization and culture. In Modernity at Large (1996) he proposed that global cultural flow can be analyzed through five overlapping dimensions, or scapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes, arguing that these disjunctive, unevenly moving flows of people, media, technology, capital, and ideas had produced a genuinely new global cultural condition that older centre-periphery models of cultural imperialism could not adequately describe. As editor of The Social Life of Things (1986), he also argued for treating commodities and objects themselves as having biographies and social lives, shifting anthropological attention from persons alone to the circulation and changing meaning of things as they move through different social and cultural contexts.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBombay, Province of Bombay, Dominion of India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) 1 Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountRecognized as a major theorist in globalization studies within anthropology 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountModernity at Large (1996); Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990); Fear of Small Numbers (2006) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Arjun Appadurai FRAI (born 4 February 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist who has been recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies.
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[[Bombay]], [[Province of Bombay]], [[Dominion of India]] (now [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])
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Some of his notable works include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981), Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990), of which an expanded version is found in Modernity at Large (1996), and Fear of Small Numbers (2006).
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