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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: University of Keele, Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference
Otros Autores: Werbner, Pnina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Berg, ©2008.
Colección:A.S.A. monographs ; 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.