Social:Carol Breckenridge

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 the University of Chicago. She died of cancer on October 4, 2009. She is survived by her husband, anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, and their son Alok.

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.

External links

• Public Culture