Bücher der Reihe ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

This work examines the ways in which "globalization" has affected specific localities, challenging the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the persuasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere.

An exploration of the notions of 'global' and 'local'. Through detailed ethnographic examples, the authors show how global institutions are manifested in local contexts.

This volume examines the way in which the nature and purpose of anthropology has been reassessed in recent years by Third World, black and feminist scholars. A range of global perspectives are examined, as well as the effects of technology and geo-political configurations.

An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives.