Arjun Appadurai is one of the most renowned anthropologists of our time. With "The Geography of Anger," one of his most important works is now available in German for the first time. Appadurai examines the dialectic of globalization: while the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall were a time of democratization and global alignment of institutions, we also witnessed unprecedented acts of violence: the genocide in Rwanda, the civil wars in the Balkans, the attacks of September 11. In the face of impending cultural homogenization, a "narcissism of minorities" emerges; we live, according to Appadurai, in a "culture of struggle.".