Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives

by Werbner, Pnina

• ISBN13: 9781847881977
• ISBN10: 1847881971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

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 Biography

Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology, Keele University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Towards a New Cosmopolitan Anthropology	p. 1
Anthropology as a Cosmopolitan Discipline
The Founding Moment: Sixty Years Ago	p. 33
The Cosmopolitan Encounter: Social Anthropology and the Kindness of Strangers	p. 47
Towards a Rooted Anthropology: Malinowski, Gellner and Herderian Cosmopolitanism	p. 69
Feminist and Non-Violent Cosmopolitan Movements
Gender, Rights and Cosmopolitanisms	p. 87
Islamic Cosmopolitics, Human Rights and Anti-Violence Strategies in Indonesia	p. 111
'A new consciousness must come': Affectivity and Movement in Tamil Dalit Women's Activist Engagement with Cosmopolitan Modernity	p. 135
Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Public Cosmopolitans
A Native Palestinian Anthropologist in Palestinian-Israeli Cosmopolitanism	p. 159
Responding to Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Patriots, Ethnics and the Public Good in Botswana	p. 173
Paradoxes of the Cosmopolitan in Melanesia	p. 197
Cosmopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the State: The Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa	p. 215
Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitan National Spaces
Cosmopolitan Nations, National Cosmopolitans	p. 233
Other Cosmopolitans in the Making of the Modern Malay World	p. 261
On Cosmopolitan and (Vernacular) Democratic Creativity: Or, There Never Was a West	p. 281
Demotic and Working-Class Cosmopolitanisms
Xenophobia and Xenophilia in South Africa: African Migrants in Cape Town	p. 309
Cosmopolitan Values in a Central Indian Steel Town	p. 325
Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation and Diaspora	p. 345
Index	p. 361
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