Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism by Pnina Werbner

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism by Pnina Werbner

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 with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities.Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. It introduces the reader to key debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, and is written clearly and accessibly for undergraduates in anthropology and related subjects.

'These wide-ranging ethnographic accounts offer much-needed comparative perspectives on the possibilities of trans-local belonging and solidarity in a globalizing worldIn the process, anthropology is re-imagined and renewed as a positioned cosmopolitan practice, among others. Genuinely provocative and destabilizing, the essays are an essential resource for any serious thinking about the varieties of cosmopolitanism today.'James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz'Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism is a terrific addition to contemporary discussions about hope, cosmopolitanism, rootedness, patriotism, civility, and anthropology at its best! As a whole, it offers subtlety and power, nuance and surprise, provocation and breadth. It will be great to think with, through, and even against. A tour de force for the early 21st century.'Virginia R. Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism is a timely volume that

Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology, Keele University.

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ISBN 13	9781847881984
ISBN 10	184788198X
Title	Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism
Author	Pnina Werbner
Series	Asa Monographs
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2009-04-01
Number of pages	396
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