Huon Wardle is a

social anthropologist Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

teaching at the

University of St Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

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. He is one of the key ethnographers of cosmopolitanism, and he draws both on philosophical and anthropological theory in his analyses. He is the author of ''An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica'' (

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: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) and, with

Paloma Gay y Blasco Paloma Gay y Blasco is a social anthropologist specialising in gender and Spanish Gitanos (Roma/Gypsies). She is a full-time lecturer at University of St Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ev ...

of ''How to Read Ethnography'' (Routledge 2007). He is the editor with Nigel Rapport of ''A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?'' (Special Issue of Social Anthropology, 2010), with Moises Lino e Silva of ''Freedom in Practice: Governance Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday'' (Routledge 2017) and with Justin Shaffner of ''Cosmopolitics'' (OAC Press 2017). He has written articles in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Anthropology, and others and was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute's J.B. Donne Prize in 2014.

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