Holding worlds together : ethnographies of knowing and belonging / edited by Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Lien, Marianne E.
• Melhuus, Marit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ethnology--Philosophy.
• Ethnology--Methodology.
• Cross-cultural orientation.
• Social structure.
• Social mobility.
• Social change.
• Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781845452506
• 184545250X

OCLC:

122973087