Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and a senior fellow of the Institute of Public Knowledge. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of editor of numerous books, including The Social Life of Things, Modernity at Large, Fear of Small Numbers, and The Future as a Cultural Fact.
"Arjun Appadurai's Banking on Words (2015) analyzes the 'new life'
of language in an age of financialization. In examining the
'predatory logics of the derivative, ' Appadurai provides an
ambitious, theoretically-driven account of the financial collapse
and the new society born in its wake. . . . Arjun Appadurai's
Banking on Words is a theoretical tour de force that attempts to
develop a new social scientific understanding of
financialization."-- "Political and Legal Anthropology Review"
In Banking on Words, Arjun Appadurai sets out his understanding of
how anthropology can help analyze the ever-growing importance of
the global financial market as an economic system and cultural
field... it is a collection of theoretical elaborations that aim to
give a genuinely anthropological interpretation of derivatives and
the financial crisis that started in 2007... With this book,
Appadurai confirms his status as one of the truly original thinkers
of our time. His aim to bring the notion of spirit back to
anthropological work on the financial markets is spot-on and truly
needed.
--Stefan Leins "Anthropos"
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