born in 1949, is an Indian ethnologist. He grew up in Bombay and emigrated to the USA to study, where he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1976. He has taught at Yale, the New School, and at universities in Europe, Latin America, and India. One of his main areas of research is cultural globalization. In 1997 Appadurai was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books have been translated into several languages.
Arjun Appadurai
India
Guest at the ILB: 2019
Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule
A South Indian Case
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge, 1981
Die Geographie des Zorns
Suhrkamp
Berlin, 2009
[Ü: Bettina Engels]
Banking on Words
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago, 2016
www.arjunappadurai.org