Anthropology and the new cosmopolitanism : rooted, feminist and vernacular perspectives /
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...
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
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| Series: | A.S.A. monographs ;
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Table of 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.