- Carol Breckenridge
Carol A. Breckenridge is an American anthropologist and Associate Professor of History at the
New School for Social Research , author of many books and articles on colonialism and the political economy of ritual; state, polity, and religion in South India; society and aesthetics in India since 1850; culture theory; and cosmopolitan cultural forms. [ [http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=10244&DeptFilter=NSSR+Historical+Studies New School Faculty page] ] In 1988 Breckenridge and fellow founding editorArjun Appadurai started "Public Culture ", [ [http://www.publicculture.org/masthead "Public Culture" masthead] ] a field-definingacademic journal in the areas of globalization and transnational cultural studies, whose title is now "a recognized term in several disciplines, deployed in job advertisements, doctoral dissertations and specialist journals—the art and the article of the academic trade. "Public Culture" has infiltrated public culture."cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/|title=The Times Literary Supplement|accessdate = 2006-11-3|author=Danchev, Alex|title=The Times Literary Supplement|date=Friday, 3 Novemember, 2006]Breckenridge received her Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and formerly taught in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at theUniversity of Chicago . She is married, with one child, to Arjun Appadurai.Recent Publications
*(Co-edited with Peter van der Veer) "Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993)
*(Editor) "Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World" (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
*(with Arjun Appadurai), "Public Modernity in India," in "Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World", C.A. Breckenridge (Editor), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
*"The Aesthetics and Politics of Colonial Collecting: India at World Fairs", Comparative Studies in Society and History, Spring 1989, 195-216.Notes
External links
* [http://www.publicculture.org/ "Public Culture"]
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