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.

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