The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and p[...]

Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, this work describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves a[...]

Att massorna har kapacitet att ingjuta fruktan är känt sedan länge. Men hur kommer det sig att vi i dagens liberala stater bevittnar en allt mer utpräglad rädsla för de fåtaliga ? en fruktan för minoriteter av alla slag?

För samhällsvetaren och antropologen Arjun Appadurai måst[...]