Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Lien, Marianne E.
• Melhuus, Marit.

Description

xxiii, 215 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Social mobility
• Cross-cultural orientation
• Social change
• Social structure
• Culture and globalization
• Ethnology > Methodology
• Ethnology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6358

ISBN

• 9781845452506 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 184545250X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007012579

OCLC

• 122973087
• vendorOCN122973087

Title

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

Imprint

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Lien, Marianne E.

Melhuus, Marit.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6358