Description
Also available in hardback, 9781847881977 GBP55.00 (April, 2008)
About the Author
Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology, Keele University.
Reviews
'These wide-ranging ethnographic accounts offer much-needed comparative perspectives on the possibilities of trans-local belonging and solidarity in a globalizing world. In the process, anthropology is re-imagined and renewed as a positioned cosmopolitan practice, among others. Genuinely provocative and destabilizing, the essays are an essential resource for any serious thinking about the varieties of cosmopolitanism today.'James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz'Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism is a terrific addition to contemporary discussions about hope, cosmopolitanism, rootedness, patriotism, civility, and anthropology at its best! As a whole, it offers subtlety and power, nuance and surprise, provocation and breadth. It will be great to think with, through, and even against. A tour de force for the early 21st century.'Virginia R. Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism is a timely volume that
Book Information
ISBN 9781847881984
Author Pnina Werbner
Format Paperback
Page Count 396
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g