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The Stranger as My Guest - A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality (Paperback)
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The Stranger as My Guest - A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality (Paperback)
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The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double
response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening
border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements,
while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming
new arrivals, offering them shelter, food and whatever help they
could provide. By so doing, they have re-awakened an old form of
anthropology that was long-considered to be dead - that of
hospitality. In this book, Agier develops an original anthropology
of hospitality that starts from the reality of hospitality as a
social relationship, albeit an asymmetrical one, in which each
party has rights and duties. He argues that, with the decline of
state and religious support, hospitality is now making a comeback
at individual and municipal levels but these local initiatives,
while important, are insufficient to respond to the scale of
migration in the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for
the modern era, one that will regard hospitality as a right rather
than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than as
an alien or an enemy. This timely and original book will be of
great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology
and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with
migration and refugees in the world today.
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Imprint: |
Polity Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2021 |
Authors: |
M Agier
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Dimensions: |
223 x 139 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5095-3989-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
1-5095-3989-1 |
Barcode: |
9781509539895 |
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