Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Softcover

Amit, Vered; Rapport, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745329039 ISBN 13: 9780745329031

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this follow up to their widely read earlier volume, The Trouble with Community, Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport ask: 'Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, in the dislocating context of globalization, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?'

This volume explores the variable nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organizational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilizing and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects. Here is an examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship, culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realizing a universal humanity.

The book offers a new perspective on human commonality through a dialogue between two eminent anthropologists who come from distinct, but complementary positions.

About this title

About the Author:

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Together with Nigel Rapport, she is the author of The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002) and editor of Claiming Individuality (2006). Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of a number of books including Transcendent Individual (Routledge, 1997).

Review:

'An important contribution' -- Raul Acosta, University of Deusto 'Unsettles in very productive ways anthropological understandings of cosmopolitanism and community' -- Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY 'Thoughtfully and beautifully written, this is a highly original book crossing genres and disciplines in its quest for insight into the human condition' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, and Small Places, Large Issues, available from Pluto Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745329039
• ISBN 13: 9780745329031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240