1. Introduction: counterworks / Richard Fardon -- 2. Self and other in contemporary anthropology / Anne Salmond -- 3. As I lay laughing: encountering global knowledge in Bali / Mark Hobart -- 4. Against syncretism: 'Africanizing' and 'Cubanizing' discourses in North American orisa worship / Stephan Palmie -- 5. Knowing the past: plural identities and the antinomies of loss in Highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- 6. It takes one to know one: collective resentment and mutual recognition among Greeks in local and global contexts / Michael Herzfeld -- 7. Latticed knowledge: eradication and dispersal of the unpalatable in Islam, medicine and anthropological theory / David Parkin -- 8. Whose knowledge and whose power? A new perspective on cultural diffusion / Signe Howell -- 9. From cosmology to environmentalism: shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting / Piers Vitebsky -- 10. The production of locality / Arjun Appadurai
Notes
"This book is one of five to have been produced from the Fourth Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 1993"--P. [viii]
