Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Several Sites in One -- 3. Ethnography and the Extreme Internet -- 4. Global Places and Place- Identities Lessons from Caribbean Research -- 5. Into Our Time: The Anthropology of Political Life in the Era of Globalisation -- 6. Shifting Boundaries of a Coastal Community: Tracing Changes on the Margin -- 7. Considering Global/ Local Relations: Beyond Dualism -- 8. Anthropologies in Policies, Anthropologies in Places: Reflections on Fieldwork in Documents and Policie -- 9. Commemorating Global Acts: A Norwegian Way of Holding an Emigrant World Together -- 10. Exchange Matters: Issues of Law and the Flow of Human Substances -- 11. The Diffusion of Moral Values in a Global Perspective -- 12. Epilogue: Studying World Society -- Contributors -- Index -- Abrams, P. 80 -- adoption and Code Napoléon -- 209-10 -- and financial gain 208 -- and financial gain 211-13 -- and identity of biological parent 210-11 -- and Western values 209-10 -- and Western values 211 -- local practices 209-10 -- simple adoption 209-10 -- transnational 199 -- transnational 202 -- transnational 204 -- transnational 207 -- transnational 208-11 -- Africa 126 -- African Americans 66-7 -- Afro-Caribbean communities, and family land 60-2 -- Albanian refugees -- 22-3 -- 24 -- alienation 222 -- Amit, V. 6 -- ancestors -- 82-4 -- 85-6 -- 92 -- Anderson, B. -- 63 -- 85 -- Anglo-Americans 67 -- anthropology -- and construction of marginal localities 105 -- and globalisation 78-80 -- and globalisation 84-5 -- and globalisation 90-3 -- and globalisation 99-100 -- and kinship 85 -- and Marxism 7-8 -- and nation-building 79-80 -- classification systems 86-90 -- classification systems 94 -- complex models 126-7 -- political 10-11 -- social 9-10 -- social 15 -- and world society 223-5 -- Antilles -- 90 -- 91 -- Appadurai, A.

5 -- 13 -- 28 -- 59-60 -- 131 -- Apple computer company -- 22 -- 27 -- 29 -- 35 -- architecture, and identity -- 111-13 -- 115 -- 116 -- Ardener, E. 110-11 -- Armenian diaspora -- 23 -- 24 -- 26 -- 30 -- 32 -- 34 -- 35 -- artificial insemination by donor [AID] -- 174-5 -- 181-4 -- and Church 185-6 -- and exchange relations 179 -- and exchange relations 183 -- and exchange relations 184 -- atomic weapon research 34 -- audits -- 10-11 -- 130-4 -- Augé, M. -- 139 -- 142 -- ballet -- 23 -- 24 -- 26-7 -- 29 -- 33 -- Barbados, and Internet 41 -- Barents Region 104-5 -- Basch, L. 68 -- Bateson, G. 7 -- Bauman, Z. -- 3 -- 81 -- 82 -- 114-15 -- 126 -- 202 -- Beck, U. -- 3 -- 81-2 -- 100 -- 116 -- 124 -- 125 -- 126 -- 135 -- Berlevåg 105-6 -- Berlin Wall, fall of -- 9 -- 81-2 -- bio-genetic substances commodification -- 173 -- 178 -- 179 -- and exchange theory 177-9 -- as gift 178-9 -- as gift 184 -- couples' rights 180-1 -- exchange relations 173 -- exchange relations 177-9 -- exchange relations 183 -- exchange relations 184 -- exchange relations 191 -- transnational flow of 170 -- transnational flow of 172 -- transnational flow of 176-7 -- transnational flow of 191-2 -- Björkland, U. -- 19-20 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 26 -- 30 -- and participant observation 34 -- and participant observation 35 -- Blixen, K. 105-6 -- Bloch, M. -- 85 -- 212 -- body, as locus of individual 172 -- Bohlin, K. 186 -- boundaries, and change -- 102-3 -- 108-11 -- 116-17 -- Bourdieu, P. 3 -- Brazil 222 -- Britain and children's rights -- 206 -- planning system 150 -- planning system 154-5 -- Buckinghamshire, planning for housing 140-2 -- burial, and territory -- 82-4 -- 85-6 -- 92 -- business, and Internet 40 -- Båtsfjord airport -- 108-9 -- 110 -- and globalising processes 108-13 -- and identity 111-13 -- and identity 115 -- and identity 116-17.

architects open meeting 111-13 -- architects open meeting 116-17 -- fiskebruk 109-11 -- fiskebruk 113 -- immigration 107 -- marginality 10 -- marginality 103-6 -- marginality 107 -- transnational connections 106-8 -- Callon, M. -- 125 -- 128 -- 129 -- capitalism and flexible specialisation -- 84 -- global 124 -- Carey, J. 198 -- Caribbean -- 99 -- 218-19 -- family land 60-2 -- St Kitts-Nevis union 63-5 -- Caribbean diasporas family networks -- 70-4 -- 75 -- and place 9 -- and place 60-2 -- and place 72-4 -- identities 71-2 -- identities 73-4 -- incorporation into American society 67-8 -- Carrier, J. 113-14 -- Cassidy, J. 41 -- caste system 23 -- Castells, M. -- 3 -- 12 -- 221 -- change -- 13 -- 94 -- 100-3 -- 108 -- 116-17 -- Chicago School 7 -- childhood -- 199 -- 202 -- 206 -- 213 -- children child labour -- 206 -- and family 203-4 -- and family 207 -- children's rights -- 11-12 -- 199 -- 201 -- 203-9 -- and cultural variation 207 -- and cultural variation 208 -- and universal values 205-6 -- and universal values 213-14 -- and Western values 205 -- and Western values 206 -- and Western values 213 -- biological origins 182-3 -- biological origins 185 -- China -- 150 -- 200 -- 204 -- 222 -- Christian missionaries -- 199-200 -- 213 -- citizenship 86-7 -- Code Napoléon 209-10 -- collective remembrance 160-2 -- Colombia 204 -- colonialism, and globalisation -- 11-12 -- 199-200 -- Comaroff, J. and J. 84 -- commemoration -- 160-2 -- 164-8 -- community -- 10 -- 13-14 -- 147-8 -- comparative studies -- 204 -- 207 -- continuity 13-14 -- Coronil, F. 91 -- Cuba 91 -- cultural fundamentalism -- 87-9 -- 92 -- 214 -- culture and place -- 159 -- as process 8 -- as process 14 -- as self-description 130 -- culture-and-personality school 1 -- Cunningham, H. 204 -- Dahlén, T. -- 23 -- 24 -- 27 -- 32 -- 33-4 -- 35 -- Dalits -- 23.

33 -- Daniels, K. 179 -- de Rivero, O. -- 124 -- 131 -- Delaney, C. 85 -- Denmark -- 150 -- 181-2 -- diasporas -- 22-3 -- 69 -- 70 -- 159 -- ethnic 69-70 -- sustaining links 167 -- diffusionism -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -- 6 -- discontinuity -- 13 -- spatial and temporal 114 -- Dominica -- 70 -- 71 -- 72-3 -- Dumont, L. 198 -- Durkheim, E. -- 129 -- 217 -- 222 -- 224 -- Dåvøy, L. 183 -- Eastern Europe national identifications -- 83 -- reburial of ancestors 82-4 -- egg donation -- 173 -- 174 -- 175 -- 180 -- 181 -- 187-90 -- Egypt, and adoption 210 -- Electricity of France 129 -- embryo research -- 176 -- status of 180-1 -- Engels, F. 224 -- Ennew, J. 206 -- Ethiopia 204 -- ethnography -- 10 -- 12 -- 14 -- 15 -- and Internet 40-57 -- multi-sited 50-1 -- multi-sited 53 -- multi-sited 56 -- multi-sited 100 -- Europe, hostility towards immigrants -- 87 -- 88 -- European Union 222 -- Evans-Pritchard, E.E. -- 14 -- 15 -- 93 -- Evers Rosander, E. -- 23 -- 24 -- 32 -- evolutionism -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -- exchange theory 177-9 -- exclusion -- 87 -- 92 -- exile nationalism 70 -- extended case method 7 -- fatherhood see paternity/fatherhood federations 222 -- Ferguson, J. -- 59 -- 78-9 -- 90 -- 92 -- 99 -- field choice of -- 25-8 -- as network of localities 21-3 -- as network of localities 25 -- as network of localities 27-8 -- political movements 23-4 -- fieldwork -- 6-7 -- 18-35 -- 90 -- 217-18 -- and comparative studies 27 -- and language 30 -- and locality 19-23 -- and material objects 139 -- and material objects 140 -- and networks 140 -- and participant observation 33-5 -- and relationships 31-3 -- and time 13 -- and time 28-30 -- and travel 28 -- and travel 30 -- gatekeepers 32-3 -- interviews 34 -- multi-local 21-35 -- multi-local 50-1 -- multi-local 53 -- multi-local 56 -- multi-local 100 -- multi-temporal approach 100.

multi-temporal approach 103 -- multi-temporal approach 117 -- policy-based 140-8 -- single-sited 13 -- single-sited 15 -- single-sited 28-9 -- Finnmark -- 103-4 -- alternative maps of 104-5 -- Finns, in Båtsfjord 107 -- Firth, R. 85 -- Flynbjerg, B. 149 -- foreign correspondants -- 18 -- 24 -- 26 -- 27 -- 32-3 -- 34 -- Fortes, M. 225 -- Foucault, M. -- 130 -- 134 -- 200-1 -- Franklin, B. -- 205 -- 206 -- Friedman, J. -- 122 -- 123 -- 135 -- Garden City Movement 150 -- Garsten, C. -- and participant observation 34 -- and participant observation 35 -- multi-local approach 22 -- multi-local approach 24 -- multi-local approach 27 -- multi-local approach 28 -- multi-local approach 29 -- multi-local approach 31 -- Gaston Family, Dominica 72-3 -- Geertz, C. -- 1 -- 8 -- 20 -- Gell, A. 140 -- Ghana 224 -- Giddens, A. -- 3 -- 20 -- Glick Schiller, N. 68-9 -- global actors -- 124-5 -- 124-5 -- 128-30 -- 128-30 -- 131 -- 131 -- 135 -- and macro actors 125 -- and macro actors 128-9 -- resistance to 11 -- resistance to 136 -- global associations -- 130-1 -- 135 -- and Internet studies 54-6 -- and macro/micro distinction 125 -- and macro/micro distinction 127 -- global embeddedness -- 2 -- 12 -- global institutions 221-2 -- global localities -- 158-9 -- 162 -- and historical continuities 82 -- and historical continuities 84-5 -- and identity discourse 114-16 -- global/local relations -- 58-9 -- 122-36 -- 156 -- and anthropological models 125-8 -- dualism 123 -- dualism 125-8 -- dualism 135 -- globalisation -- 24-5 -- 122-3 -- 138-9 -- 148 -- 199 -- 219-20 -- and alliances 200 -- and boundaries 116-17 -- and collapse of communism 81-4 -- and colonialism 11-12 -- and colonialism 199-200 -- globalisation continued and inequality -- 220 -- 221 -- and moral values 198-214 -- and nation-state 202-3 -- and place 58-75.

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