This thinker drew on the pathway theories of Igor (*) Kopytoff to argue that commodities are "things in a certain situation," in his introductory essay to The Social Life of Things.
One essay by this thinker argues that the lack of capacity for aspiration is the defining feature of the environment of poverty. Another essay by this thinker discusses cultural reproduction by families, in a Walter Benjamin-parodying section titled "The Work of Reproduction in an Age of Mechanical Art." This thinker argued that a certain process's production of "vertebrate" and "cellular" forms has led to an increase in genocidal impulses, in his book Fear of Small Numbers. This thinker drew on the pathway theories of Igor (*) Kopytoff to argue that commodities are "things in a certain situation," in his introductory essay to The Social Life of Things. This anthropologist identified ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes as the five building blocks of socially "imagined worlds," in a 1990 essay later expanded into his book Modernity at Large. For 10 points, name this Indian-American postcolonial anthropologist, best known for his theory of "disjuncture" and "difference" in the global cultural economy.
One essay by this thinker argues that the lack of capacity for aspiration is the defining feature of the environment of poverty.
Arjun Appadurai