Social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)

Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization / Arjun Appadurai.

The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.

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Arjun Appadurai

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Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization / Arjun Appadurai.

The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.