Facts: - work institutions: new york university the new school - field: anthropology - birth date: 1949 - name: arjun appadurai - image size: 200px - image: arjunappadurai.jpg - birth place: mumbai , india - alma mater: brandeis m.a. , ph.d. -rrb- university -lrb- b.a. -rrb- university of chicago -lrb- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of arjun appadurai .
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arjun appadurai -lrb- born 1949 -rrb- is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist recognised as a major theorist in globalization studies .in his anthropological work , he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization .