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Arjun Appadurai, an Uncommon card
Arjun Appadurai FRAI is an Indian-American anthropologist who has been recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Arjun Appadurai quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arjun Appadurai card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is an elected fellow of the Royal ______ Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Answer
Anthropological. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From the Arjun Appadurai article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Computable number. Computable number 67 · Arjun Appadurai 64 · Balance beam 58 · Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Flow network. Flow network 34,000 · Arjun Appadurai 22,000 · Miguel Nicolelis 16,000 · DB-Engines ranking 9,700 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is an elected fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
- In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation-states and globalization.
- He is the former professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, Humanities Dean at the University of Chicago, director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at The New School, and professor of education and human development studies at New York University's…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arjun Appadurai article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arjun Appadurai (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TheSilentPhotographer ( talk ), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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