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Anyone : the cosmopolitan subject of anthropology / Nigel Rapport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 24.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Human behavior--Philosophy.
- Human behavior.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, e
- Contents:
- Anyone; Methodology and History in Anthropology; Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; Acknowledgements; Introduction - INTENT AND STRUCTURE; PART 1 - What are the meanings of cosmopolitanism, past, present and future?; COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOPOLIS: DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES; 1.1 - A HISTORY AND OVERVIEW; 1.2 - A COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT FOR ANTHROPOLOGY; PART 2 - Is Anyone a feature of everyday social life and exchange, a real presence?; 'MY NAME IS RICKEY HIRSCH': A LIFE IN SIX ACTS, WITH MARGINALIA AND A CODA
- PART 3 - How is the individuality of Anyone to be accommodated by an objective science and acknowledged by a democratic society?ANYONE IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: EVIDENCING AND ENGAGING; 3.1 - PERSONAL TRUTH, SUBJECTIVITY AS TRUTH; 3.2 - GENERALITY, DISTORTION AND GRATUITOUSNESS; 3.3 - PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: CIVILITY AS POLITESSE; AFTERWORD: JEWISH COSMOPOLITANISM; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613814951
- 9781282254305
- 1282254308
- 9780857455239
- 0857455230
- OCLC:
- 804662780
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