Anthropology

In the innovative form of the learned dialogue, the authors ...

(Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Soc)

In the innovative form of the learned dialogue, the authors address some of the most urgent questions in contemporary social theory, concerning cosmopolitanism and the pragmatics of social community. Thoughtfully and beautifully written in two distinctive styles, this is a highly original book crossing genres and disciplines in its quest for insight into the human condition.

(Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and author of numerous books including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, and Small Places, Large Issues (Pluto Press).)

Amit and Rapport are 'good to think with' as they ...

(Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor of Anthr)

Amit and Rapport are 'good to think with' as they debate contemporary notions of and for human sociality. They unsettle in very productive ways anthropological understandings of cosmopolitanism and community by bringing Kant and Turner into dialogue with each other.

(Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY )