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Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

By Nigel Rapport

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9780857455239
DOI
10.1515/9780857455239
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1084481 bytes)
Series
Methodology & History in Anthropology; 24
Pages
238\240
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:38:23

Description

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.

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