Charles Carnegie

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS (COSMOPOLITAN) OBJECT

Introduction

Anthropology and its (cosmopolitan) object. Explore cosmopolitan anthropology's recognition of shared humanity and proximity, challenging traditional views. Discusses direct participation and intervention in research contexts.

Abstract

With the emergence of a cosmopolitan anthropology has come, inone sense, a new recognition of the shared humanity and proximity of peoples more generally regarded and kept in place as “Other” by those Keith Hart baldly described as “a rich, aging white minority” currently presiding over the masses of the world. Yet at the same time we must ask what possibilities are there for participating and intervening more directly than we have been accustomed to doing in the discourse and social problematic of the places and among the peoples with whom we do research?

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