Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is professor emeritus of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of T he Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective , Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization , Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger, The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition , and Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance .

Arjun Appadurai is professor emeritus of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of T he Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective , Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization , Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger, The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition , and Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance . See less