Anthropology and the new cosmopolitanism : rooted, feminist and vernacular perspectives / edited by Pnina Werbner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Werbner, Pnina.

Series:

A.S.A. monographs ; 45.

A.S.A. monographs ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Cosmopolitanism.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.

Summary:

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. Its ethnographic and theoretical subject is 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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Towards a New Cosmopolitan Anthropology / Pnina Werbner 1

Section I Anthropology as a Cosmopolitan Discipline

2 The Founding Moment: Sixty Years Ago / Elizabeth Colson 33

3 The Cosmopolitan Encounter: Social Anthropology and the Kindness of Strangers / Pnina Werbner 47

4 Towards a Rooted Anthropology: Malinowski, Gellner and Herderian Cosmopolitanism / Chris Hann 69

Section II Feminist and Non-Violent Cosmopolitan Movements

5 Gender, Rights and Cosmopolitanisms / Maila Stivens 87

6 Islamic Cosmopolitics, Human Rights and Anti-Violence Strategies in Indonesia / Kathryn Robinson 111

7 'A new consciousness must come': Affectivity and Movement in Tamil Dalit Women's Activist Engagement with Cosmopolitan Modernity / Kalpana Ram 135

Section III Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Public Cosmopolitans

8 A Native Palestinian Anthropologist in Palestinian-Israeli Cosmopolitanism / Aref Abu-Rabia 159

9 Responding to Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Patriots, Ethnics and the Public Good in Botswana / Richard Werbner 173

10 Paradoxes of the Cosmopolitan in Melanesia / Eric Hirsch 197

11 Cosmopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the State: The Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa / Dorothy L. Hodgson 215

Section IV Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitan National Spaces

12 Cosmopolitan Nations, National Cosmopolitans / Richard Fardon 233

13 Other Cosmopolitans in the Making of the Modern Malay World / Joel S. Kahn 261

14 On Cosmopolitan and (Vernacular) Democratic Creativity: Or, There Never Was a West / David Graeber 281

Section V Demotic and Working-Class Cosmopolitanisms

15 Xenophobia and Xenophilia in South Africa: African Migrants in Cape Town / Owen B. Sichone 309

16 Cosmopolitan Values in a Central Indian Steel Town / Jonathan Parry 325

17 Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation and Diaspora / Pnina Werbner 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847881977

1847881971

9781847881984

184788198X

OCLC:

193901086

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