ANTHROPOLOGIST

Arjun Appadurai

1949 - Today

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Arjun Appadurai (born 4 February 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist who has been recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation-states and globalization. He is the former professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, Humanities Dean at the University of Chicago, director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at The New School, and professor of education and human development studies at New York University's Steinhardt School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arjun Appadurai has received more than 439,498 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arjun Appadurai is the 62nd most popular anthropologist, the 570th most popular biography from India (down from 482nd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Arjun Appadurai ranks 62 out of 93. Before him are Fei Xiaotong, Edmund Leach, Fiona Graham, Melville J. Herskovits, Georges Balandier, and Jack Goody. After him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Philippe Descola, Max Gluckman, George Murdock, Gayle Rubin, and Madison Grant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Arjun Appadurai ranks 385. Before him are Delia Owens, Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Helena Fibingerová, Tom Verlaine, Steven Williams, and Odilo Scherer. After him are Kayahan, Viktor Klimenko, Michael Beck, Ivo Linna, John Podesta, and Naseeruddin Shah.

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In India

Among people born in India, Arjun Appadurai ranks 570 out of 1,861. Before him are Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Dawood Ibrahim (1955), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), Manna Dey (1919), and Robert Swinhoe (1836). After him are Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Roshan Seth (1942), Naseeruddin Shah (1949), and The Great Gama (1878).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In India

Among anthropologists born in India, Arjun Appadurai ranks 1. 

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