PROPHETS FACING BACKWARD
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Laurie Taylor talks to Meera Nanda author of Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India. They discuss her work on the rise of Hindu nationalism and its promotion of 'Vedic Science', and the undermining of science as only one truth amongst many.
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CONSUMER CULTURE
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Male binge spending, drinking to excess, visiting clubs and seeking out sex is not a modern day phenomenon but has roots stretching back to the seventeenth century when British men produced, extracted and transported goods from the far flung corners of the British Empire and blew the money they earned on hedonistic sprees.
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Laurie Taylor looks at the origins of consumer culture with Rick Wilk, professor of anthropology at Indiana University and Jan Pahl, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and why the spending patterns of British manual labourers in Belize four hundred years ago have played such a significant part in defining modern consumer culture.
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Additional information:
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Meera Nanda
Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in IndiaÌýÌý
Publisher: Rutgers University Press - ISBN 0813533589
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Professor (Richard Wilk)
Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University (on sabatical)
Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
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Professor
Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Kent at Canterbury
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury
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Co-editor with Dr Emma Wincup of theÌý
Money and MarriageÌýÌý
Jan Pahl
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 0333387686
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Invisible Money: Family Finance in the Electronic EconomyÌýÌý
Jan Pahl
Publisher: The Policy Press
ISBN 186134158X
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Original "parody" article
published in Social Text
#46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996)
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Debate in Lingua Franca
Alan D. Sokal
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