Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

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.