Holding worlds together : ethnographies of knowing and belonging /
Lien, Marianne E.
Melhuus, Marit.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus -- Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Imagined kin, place and community : some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption / Signe Howell -- Procreative imaginations : when experts disagree on the meanings of kinship / Marit Melhuus -- Family tracings : global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies / Sarah Lund -- The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism : Dominicans in New York City / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- Weeding Tasmanian bush : biomigration and landscape imagery / Marianne Elisabeth Lien -- Epochs of scale-making in Papua / Eric Hirsch -- Standardised uniqueness : rearticulating identity in a Norwegian town / Erik Henningsen -- Arresting mobility or locating expertise : 'globalisation' and the 'knowledge society' / Penny Harvey -- Afterword / Bruce Kapferer.
Ethnology
Ethnology
Cross-cultural orientation.
Social structure.
Social mobility.
Social change.
Culture and globalization.