Postcolonial Developments

"Many have despaired of the possibility of studying the vast forces and conditions of the contemporary world--globalization, postcoloniality, late capitalism--through ethnographic methods that continue to focus on the specific and the 'local.' Akhil Gupta has provided us with a brilliant example of how this can be done. In the process he has rewritten the very categories of the global and the local, and has done so within a prose of extraordinary lucidity and power."--Sherry Ortner, Columbia University