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The trouble with community : anthropological reflections on movement, identity and collectivity /

The authors reappraise the concept and the reality of 'community', in the light of globalization, religious fundamentalism, identity politics, and renascent localisms.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amit, Vered, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Anthropology and community : some opening notes
  • Embracing disjunction
  • Trouble with community
  • Introduction : a theory of movement
  • Incommensurability : politics or law?
  • Educating for liberal democracy
  • Ironization of liberal democracy
  • Human rights and liberal democracy
  • Universalism and relativism in the global ecumene
  • Existential anthropology
  • Existential politics
  • Vered Amit responds to Nigel Rapport
  • Nigel Rapport responds to Vered Amit.