The changing nature of anthropological knowledge : an introduction / Henrietta L. Moore -- Interpreting electron micrographs / Emily Martin -- Globalization and localization : new challenges to rural research / Norman Long -- Anthropology, China and modernities : the geopolitics of cultural knowledge / Aihwa Ong -- Tradition, travelling theory, anthropology and the discourse of modernity in China / Mayfair Yang -- Anthropology without tears : how a 'local' sees the 'local' and the 'global' / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Chimpanzees, diamonds and war : the discourses of global environmental change and local violence on the Liberia-Sierra Leone border / Paul Richards -- Afterword / Peter Harries-Jones
Summary
The nature and purpose of anthropology has been reassessed in recent years by third world, black and feminist scholars. A wide range of global perspectives are examined as well as the effects of technology and geo-political configurations
