Anthropology and the new cosmopolitanism : rooted, feminist and vernacular perspectives. / edited by Pnina Werbner
2008, 1st edition. Oxford : Berg. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #326808
ISBN: 184788198X
Physical description: xiii, 382 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Notes: Based on papers presented at the ASA Diamond Jubilee conference on "Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology", held at Keele University in April 2006. 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.
Subjects: Anthropology.
Cosmopolitanism. Globalization Social aspects. Genre: Bibliography.
Price: €40.00