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

Other author Lien, Marianne E.
Other author Melhuus, Marit.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Descriptionxxiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007012579
ISBN9781845452506 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN184545250X (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN345 .H625 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold