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Holding worlds together : ethnographies of knowing and belonging

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Subject: Ethnology
Cross-cultural orientation
Social structure
Social mobility
Social change
Culture and globalization
Publication Year:2007
Language:English
Published:New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
ISBN:9781845452506
184545250X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- 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 on contributors.
Course: SOC336

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 305.8001 HOL 2007 Available