Towards a cosmopolitan anthropology of Anyone : a response to Brigitte Lewis
Abstract
In response to a critique of ‘cosmopolitanism’ and what it might offer ‘anthropology’, this article sets out to formulate a relation between the two that encompasses an ambitious programme of both knowledge and justice. A cosmopolitan anthropology would look beyond cultural difference to common civilisation, beyond local traditions to truth, and beyond conventions of personhood to a universal individuality. To know the human, to find ways justly to represent the human and to secure the human in moral social arrangements, is necessarily to come to terms with the individuality of life and identity.
Citation
Rapport , N J 2017 , ' Towards a cosmopolitan anthropology of Anyone : a response to Brigitte Lewis ' , SITES , vol. 14 , no. 2 , pp. 19-31 . https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol14iss2id365
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SITES
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1179-0237Type
Journal article
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© 2017, Sites: New Series, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. SITES is licensed CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise specified. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol14iss2id365.
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