Abstract
Arjun Appadurai (born 1949 in Bombay) earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and his Master of Arts from Brandeis University. He is a Doctor of Philosophy since 1976. He currently focuses his studies on ethnic violence in the context of globalization. He also leads a project on the cultural dimensions of social crisis in Mumbai and a comparative ethnographic project on grass-roots globalization. Arjun Appadurai wants to demonstrate that the primordialist thesis is unable to account for the ethnicities of the twentieth century, mainly characterized by a large size, nationalist aspirations and violence, and to propose a new approach to reach this aim.
