Holding worlds together
Subtitle: ethnographies of knowing and belonging
By: edited by Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus
Contributors: Lien, Marianne E; Melhuus, Marit
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781845452506
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Methodology; Cross-cultural orientation; Social structure; Social mobility; Social change; Culture and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus; title: Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows / Thomas Hylland Eriksen; title: Imagined kin, place and community : some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption / Signe Howell; title: Procreative imaginations : when experts disagree on the meanings of kinship / Marit Melhuus; title: Family tracings : global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies / Sarah Lund; title: The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism : Dominicans in New York City / Christian Krohn-Hansen; title: Weeding Tasmanian bush : biomigration and landscape imagery / Marianne Elisabeth Lien; title: Epochs of scale-making in Papua / Eric Hirsch; title: Standardised uniqueness : rearticulating identity in a Norwegian town / Erik Henningsen; title: Arresting mobility or locating expertise : 'globalisation' and the 'knowledge society' / Penny Harvey; title: Afterword / Bruce Kapferer