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Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism

A Rural Ontology from Western India
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Description

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism. This collection of essays on early 1980s India is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. It offers a close look at an agrarian society at the pivotal moment of its encounter with capitalist transformation and studies ideas of measurement, sociality, and independence.

Author Biography:

Arjun Appadurai is professor emeritus of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of  The 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.
Release date NZ
August 5th, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Arjun Appadurai
Pages
140
ISBN-13
9781914363061
Product ID
38219858

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