Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; Introduction: counterworks; Self and other in contemporary anthropology; As I lay laughing: encountering global knowledge in Bali; Against syncretism: 'Africanizing' and 'Cubanizing' discourses in North American rs worship; Knowing the past: plural identities and the antinomies of loss in Highland Bolivia; It takes one to know one: collective resentment and mutual recognition among Greeks in local and global contexts
Summary
Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge
