Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847881984)

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.

Author: Pnina Werbner
ISBN-10: 184788198X
ISBN-13: 9781847881984
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d