The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality

by Michel Agier

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509539891
• ISBN13: 9781509539895
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"