Table of Contents:
  • The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge. An introduction / Moore, Henrietta L.
  • Interpreting Electron Micrographs / Martin, Emily
  • Globalization and Localization. New challenges to rural research / Long, Norman
  • Anthropology, China and Modernities. The geopolitics of cultural knowledge / Ong, Aihwa
  • Tradition, Travelling Theory, Anthropology and the Discourse of Modernity in China / Yang, Mayfair
  • Anthropology Without Tears. How a "local" sees the "local" and the "global" / Karim, Wazir Jahan
  • Chimpanzees, Diamonds and War. The discourses of global environmental change and local violence on the Liberia-Sierra Leone border / Richards, Paul
  • Afterword / Harries-Jones, Peter.