Public Culture's Millennial Quartet:
"Alternative Modernities, "
Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
"Globalization,
"Edited by Arjun Appadurai
"Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, "
Edited by Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
"Cosmopolitanism, "
Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, & Dipesh Chakrabarty

Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / Arjun Appadurai 1
At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe 22
Mapping Concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz 52
Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia / Andreas Huyssen 57
On Foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory 78
On Wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss 81
Toward an Ethics of the Future / Jérôme Bindé 90
A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung 114
Mediating Time: The "Rice Bowl of Youth" in Fin de Siècle Urban China / Zhang Zhen 131
Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing 155
A Sweet Lullaby for World Music / Steven Feld 189
On the Uddered Breast 217
Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion / Seteney Shami 220
On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Women's Claim to Locality / Fatu Kande Senghor 251
From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini 253
Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization / Saskia Sassen 260
Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital / Leo Ching 279
The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity / Jean-François Bayart 307
Contributors 335
Index 339

Arjun Appadurai is Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.