Abstract

Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?

This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects.

Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present an examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship, culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realising a universal humanity.
'Unsettles in very productive ways anthropological understandings of cosmopolitanism and community'
Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY
'An important contribution'
Raúl Acosta, University of Deusto
'Thoughtfully and beautifully written, this is a highly original book crossing genres and disciplines in its quest for insight into the human condition'
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, and Small Places, Large Issues, available from Pluto Press.