| Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives Contributor(s): Werbner, Pnina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 184788198X ISBN-13: 9781847881984 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 2008005171 |
| Series: ASA Monographs (Berg Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.22 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Werbner, Pnina: - Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. |