Monographies

2008 · Best.-Nr. 326808 — Oxford : Berg 2008. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiii 382 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Notes: Based on papers presented at the ASA Diamond Jubilee conference on ""Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology"" held at Keele University in April 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction: towards a new cosmopolitan anthropology / Pnina Werbner -- The founding moment: sixty years ago / Elizabeth Colson -- The cosmopolitan encounter: social anthropology and the kindness of strangers / Pnina Werber -- Towards a rooted anthropology: Malinowski Gellner and Herderian cosmopolitanism / Chris Hann -- Gender rights cosmopolitanisms / Malia Stivens -- Islamic cosmopolitics human rights and anti-violence strategies in Indonesia / Kathryn Robinson -- 'A new conscious must come': affectivity and movement in Tamil Dalit women's activist engagement with cosmopolitan modernity / Kalpana Ram -- A native Palestinian anthropologist in Palestinian-Israeli cosmopolitianism / Aref Abu-Rabia -- Responding to rooted cosmopolitanism: patriots ethnics and the public good in Botswana / Richard Werbner -- Paradoxes of the cosmopolitan in Melanesia / Eric Hirsch -- Cosmopolitics neolibeeralism and the state: the Indigenous rights movement in Africa / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Cosmopolitan nations national cosmopolitans / Richard Fardon -- Other cosmopolitans in the making of the modern Malay world / Joel S. Kahn -- On cosmopolitan and vernacular democratic creativity: or there never was a west / David Graeber -- Xenophobia and xenophilis in South Africa : African migrants in Cape town / Owen B. Sichone -- Cosmopolitan values in a central Indian steel town / Jonathan Parry -- Cosmopolitanism globalization and disapora / Stuart Hall in conversation with Pnina Werbner.Subjects: Anthropology.Cosmopolitanism. Globalization Social aspects. Genre: Bibliography. Oxford : Berg paperback