Gustavo Lins Ribeiro is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; he is also Research Associate at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, ICANH, in Bogota

'Given anthropology's long-standing attention to relatively powerless groups and to the relationships between the researcher and the research subjects, we are particularly beholden to query the paradoxical effects of globalisation on our own production of knowledge. This book, and the larger project of which it is part, is to be lauded for raising these issues.'Anthropological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2008

• 1. World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo EscobarPart 1: Transnationalism and State Power2. Reshaping Anthropology: A View from Japan Shinji Yamashita3. Transformations in Siberian Anthropology: An Insider's Perspective Nikolai Vakhtin4. In Search of Anthropology in China: A Discipline Caught in a Web of Nation Building, Socialist Capitalism, and Globalization Josephine Smart5. Mexican Anthropology's Ongoing Search for Identity Esteban KrotzPart 2: Power and Hegemony in World Anthropologies6. How Many Centers and Peripheries in Anthropology? A Critical View of France Eduardo P. Archetti7. The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Hegemony: Anthropological Theory and Political Struggles in Spain Susana Narotzky8. Anthropology in a Postcolonial Africa: The Survival Debate Paul Nchoji NkwiPart 3: Epistemological, Sociological, and Disciplinary Predicaments9. Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations: Anthropology in the United Kingdom Eeva Berglund10. The Production of Other Knowledges and Its Tensions: From Andeanist Anthropology to Interculturalidad? Marisol de la Cadena11. A Time and Place beyond and of the Center: Australian Anthropologies in the Process of Becoming Sandy Toussaint12. Official Hegemony and Contesting Pluralisms Shiv VisvanathanPart 4: From Anthropology Today to World Anthropologies13. The Pictographics of Tristesse: An Anthropology of Nation Building in the Tropics and Its Aftermath Otavio Velho14. "World Anthropologies": Questions Johannes Fabian

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; he is also Research Associate at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, ICANH, in Bogota

'Given anthropology's long-standing attention to relatively powerless groups and to the relationships between the researcher and the research subjects, we are particularly beholden to query the paradoxical effects of globalisation on our own production of knowledge. This book, and the larger project of which it is part, is to be lauded for raising these issues.'Anthropological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2008

• 1. World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo EscobarPart 1: Transnationalism and State Power2. Reshaping Anthropology: A View from Japan Shinji Yamashita3. Transformations in Siberian Anthropology: An Insider's Perspective Nikolai Vakhtin4. In Search of Anthropology in China: A Discipline Caught in a Web of Nation Building, Socialist Capitalism, and Globalization Josephine Smart5. Mexican Anthropology's Ongoing Search for Identity Esteban KrotzPart 2: Power and Hegemony in World Anthropologies6. How Many Centers and Peripheries in Anthropology? A Critical View of France Eduardo P. Archetti7. The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Hegemony: Anthropological Theory and Political Struggles in Spain Susana Narotzky8. Anthropology in a Postcolonial Africa: The Survival Debate Paul Nchoji NkwiPart 3: Epistemological, Sociological, and Disciplinary Predicaments9. Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations: Anthropology in the United Kingdom Eeva Berglund10. The Production of Other Knowledges and Its Tensions: From Andeanist Anthropology to Interculturalidad? Marisol de la Cadena11. A Time and Place beyond and of the Center: Australian Anthropologies in the Process of Becoming Sandy Toussaint12. Official Hegemony and Contesting Pluralisms Shiv VisvanathanPart 4: From Anthropology Today to World Anthropologies13. The Pictographics of Tristesse: An Anthropology of Nation Building in the Tropics and Its Aftermath Otavio Velho14. "World Anthropologies": Questions Johannes Fabian

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; he is also Research Associate at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, ICANH, in Bogota

'Given anthropology's long-standing attention to relatively powerless groups and to the relationships between the researcher and the research subjects, we are particularly beholden to query the paradoxical effects of globalisation on our own production of knowledge. This book, and the larger project of which it is part, is to be lauded for raising these issues.'Anthropological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2008

• 1. World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo EscobarPart 1: Transnationalism and State Power2. Reshaping Anthropology: A View from Japan Shinji Yamashita3. Transformations in Siberian Anthropology: An Insider's Perspective Nikolai Vakhtin4. In Search of Anthropology in China: A Discipline Caught in a Web of Nation Building, Socialist Capitalism, and Globalization Josephine Smart5. Mexican Anthropology's Ongoing Search for Identity Esteban KrotzPart 2: Power and Hegemony in World Anthropologies6. How Many Centers and Peripheries in Anthropology? A Critical View of France Eduardo P. Archetti7. The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Hegemony: Anthropological Theory and Political Struggles in Spain Susana Narotzky8. Anthropology in a Postcolonial Africa: The Survival Debate Paul Nchoji NkwiPart 3: Epistemological, Sociological, and Disciplinary Predicaments9. Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations: Anthropology in the United Kingdom Eeva Berglund10. The Production of Other Knowledges and Its Tensions: From Andeanist Anthropology to Interculturalidad? Marisol de la Cadena11. A Time and Place beyond and of the Center: Australian Anthropologies in the Process of Becoming Sandy Toussaint12. Official Hegemony and Contesting Pluralisms Shiv VisvanathanPart 4: From Anthropology Today to World Anthropologies13. The Pictographics of Tristesse: An Anthropology of Nation Building in the Tropics and Its Aftermath Otavio Velho14. "World Anthropologies": Questions Johannes Fabian