| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
A.S.A. monographs ; 45
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A.S.A. monographs ; 45.
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| Note |
Outgrowth of the ASA Diamond Jubilee conference held at Keele University, Apr. 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: towards a new cosmopolitan anthropology / Pnina Werbner -- The founding moment: sixty years ago / Elizabeth Colson -- The cosmopolitan encounter: social anthropology and the kindness of strangers / Pnina Werber -- Towards a rooted anthropology: Malinowski, Gellner and Herderian cosmopolitanism / Chris Hann -- Gender, rights cosmopolitanisms / Malia Stivens -- Islamic cosmopolitics, human rights and anti-violence strategies in Indonesia / Kathryn Robinson -- 'A new conscious must come': affectivity and movement in Tamil Dalit women's activist engagement with cosmopolitan modernity / Kalpana Ram -- A native Palestinian anthropologist in Palestinian-Israeli cosmopolitianism / Aref Abu-Rabia -- Responding to rooted cosmopolitanism: patriots, ethnics and the public good in Botswana / Richard Werbner -- Paradoxes of the cosmopolitan in Melanesia / Eric Hirsch -- Cosmopolitics, neolibeeralism, and the state: the Indigenous rights movement in Africa / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Cosmopolitan nations, national cosmopolitans / Richard Fardon -- Other cosmopolitans in the making of the modern Malay world / Joel S. Kahn -- On cosmopolitan and (vernacular) democratic creativity: or, there never was a west / David Graeber -- Xenophobia and xenophilis in South Africa : African migrants in Cape town / Owen B. Sichone -- Cosmopolitan values in a central Indian steel town / Jonathan Parry -- Cosmopolitanism, globalization and disapora / Stuart Hall in conversation with Pnina Werbner. |
| Summary |
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The book's major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North - in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico - juggle universalist commitments wi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Congresses.
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Cosmopolitanism -- Congresses.
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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Anthropology |
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Cosmopolitanism |
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Globalization -- Social aspects |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Added Author |
Werbner, Pnina.
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University of Keele.
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Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference (2006 : University of Keele)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anthropology and the new cosmopolitanism. Oxford ; New York : Berg, ©2008 9781847881977 1847881971 (DLC) 2008005171 (OCoLC)193901086 |
| ISBN |
9781847885418 (electronic bk.) |
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1847885411 (electronic bk.) |
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