ISBN:
978-0-7453-1746-5
,
0-7453-1746-4
Language:
English
Pages:
185 Seiten
Series Statement:
Anthropology, Culture and Society
DDC:
307
Keywords:
Anthropologie Kulturanthropologie
;
Gemeinschaft
;
Identität
;
Migration
;
Demographie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Community is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings. The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or imprisoning; the reality of community life and identity can often be very different from the ideology and the ideal. In this book, the authors draw on their ethnographic experiences to reappraise the concept and the reality of 'community', in the light of globalisation, religious fundamentalism, identity politics, and renascent localisms. How might anthropology better apprehend social identities which are intrinsically plural, transgressive and ironic? What has anthropology to say about the way in which civil society might hope to accommodate the ongoing construction and the rightful expression of such migrant identities?
Description / Table of Contents:
Anthropology and community : some opening notes -- Embracing disjunction -- Trouble with community -- Introduction : a theory of movement -- Incommensurability : politics or law? -- Educating for liberal democracy -- Ironization of liberal democracy -- Human rights and liberal democracy -- Universalism and relativism in the global ecumene -- Existential anthropology -- Existential politics -- Vered Amit responds to Nigel Rapport -- Nigel Rapport responds to Vered Amit.
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=010224435&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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