Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies

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An annual review of work in Cosmopolitan Studies

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WESTERMARCK, MORAL BEHAVIOUR AND ETHICAL RELATIVITY

Edward Westermarck is known but scantily in the modern anthropological consciousness. His name appears, if it does at all, usually in a passing comment or perhaps a footnote, often rather disparagingly. This, I would argue is quite wrong,...

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To Know the World is to Advocate for It

This review essay is a response to the graduate seminar on Cosmopolitan Anthropology convened by Kristin Kuutma at the University of Tartu, Estonia on the 14th and 15th of January 2015. The three presenters at the seminar were Nigel Rappor...

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ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS (COSMOPOLITAN) OBJECT

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...

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ADIWA! PIAROA PHILOSOPHIES OF POWER, VIOLENCE, INGESTION, EXCRETION, BLOOD AND BEAUTY

For Amazonian peoples we have the question of just what is the relation of Power to Polity and Society? – How do these ideas of Polity and Power compare with Western paradigms and expectations? Unfortunately we find that there can be no re...

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OPEN SECRET

An analogy between the biomedical practice of vivisection and the contemporary, literary realism of the second half of the 19th century was advanced by Menke (2000), when examining the literary project of George Elliot and her pro-vivisect...

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AN EXISTENTIAL MANIFESTO INSPIRED BY ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK: AUTOGRAPHY, ABSOLUTE STYLE AND THE ANTHROPOLOGIST

The Collins English Dictionary (2021) defines autography as “the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten” and as “the precise reproduction of an illustration or of writing”. I use the word “autography” in anoth...