We the Cosmopolitans

“Taken together, the contributions advance especially discussions about rooted cosmopolitanism respectively vernacular cosmopolitanism…Beyond cosmopolitanism proper the book has a lot to say about shared moralities. Throughout this volume all contributions explicitly or implicitly address the question of universal attributes of human cultures, a traditional but usually neglected topic in current cultural anthropology. The book is well-crafted and well-edited and comes with a systematic and wonderfully detailed index.”· Anthropos

“[This volume] enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with…[It is] a collection of seminal essays that are as informed and thoughtful as they are iconoclastic examples of meticulous and seminal scholarship replete with illustrative case examples. Of special note are Lisette Josephides' Introduction' and Alexandra Hall's 'Conclusion'. [This volume] is a strongly recommended contribution to academic library Philosophy and Cultural Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.”· Midwest Book Review

“This is an important intervention in several ways. It adds to the growing momentum behind cosmopolitanism as an anthropological and interdisciplinary theme and it gives us new ideas and case studies to work with. More importantly, though, from the point of view of debate, this book is forcefully challenging a number of taken for granted notions in anthropology.”· Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews