Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen holds a PhD from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has carried out fieldworks in Denmark, Canada (Montreal) and the Philippines, focusing in particular on aging, sexuality, loneliness, violence and politics. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen.

"The ethnographic data are valuable and the theoretical discussion is well-set within a series of intellectually rigorous, philosophically informed anthropological frames." * Maria D. Vesperi, New College of Florida"Mikkelsen's compelling writing and excellent fieldwork research adds effectively to the classic literature in social/cultural anthropology, renewing and extending the famous monographs of Michelle and Renato Rosaldo." * George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Of Mist and MenChapter 2. Impartial ManChapter 3. ChaosmologyChapter 4. NgayoChapter 5. Power without ChiefBibliographyIndex

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen holds a PhD from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has carried out fieldworks in Denmark, Canada (Montreal) and the Philippines, focusing in particular on aging, sexuality, loneliness, violence and politics. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen.

"The ethnographic data are valuable and the theoretical discussion is well-set within a series of intellectually rigorous, philosophically informed anthropological frames." * Maria D. Vesperi, New College of Florida"Mikkelsen's compelling writing and excellent fieldwork research adds effectively to the classic literature in social/cultural anthropology, renewing and extending the famous monographs of Michelle and Renato Rosaldo." * George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Of Mist and MenChapter 2. Impartial ManChapter 3. ChaosmologyChapter 4. NgayoChapter 5. Power without ChiefBibliographyIndex

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen holds a PhD from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has carried out fieldworks in Denmark, Canada (Montreal) and the Philippines, focusing in particular on aging, sexuality, loneliness, violence and politics. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen.

"The ethnographic data are valuable and the theoretical discussion is well-set within a series of intellectually rigorous, philosophically informed anthropological frames." * Maria D. Vesperi, New College of Florida"Mikkelsen's compelling writing and excellent fieldwork research adds effectively to the classic literature in social/cultural anthropology, renewing and extending the famous monographs of Michelle and Renato Rosaldo." * George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Of Mist and MenChapter 2. Impartial ManChapter 3. ChaosmologyChapter 4. NgayoChapter 5. Power without ChiefBibliographyIndex