Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has done research on food, consumption, economic anthropology, aquaculture and biomigration. Publications include Marketing and Modernity (1997) and the co-edited volume The Politics of Food (2004). She is head of the research program “Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances” (Norwegian Research Council).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceby Bruce KapfererList of figuresChapter 1. IntroductionMarianne E. Lien and Marit MelhuusChapter 2. Trust and reciprocity in Transnational flowsThomas Hylland EriksenChapter 3. Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoptionSigne HowellChapter 4. Procreative imaginations. When experts disagree on the meanings of kinshipMarit MelhuusChapter 5. Family tracings. Global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogiesSarah LundChapter 6. The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism. Dominicans in New York CityChristian Krohn-HansenChapter 7. Weeding Tasmanian bush. Biomigration and landscape imageryMarianne E. LienChapter 8. Epochs of scale-making in PapuaEric HirschChapter 9. Standardised uniqueness. Rearticulating identiy in a Norwegian townErik HenningsenChapter 10. Arresting mobility or locating expertise: ‘Globalisation’ and the ‘knowledge society’Penny HarveyNotes on contributorsIndex

Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has done research on food, consumption, economic anthropology, aquaculture and biomigration. Publications include Marketing and Modernity (1997) and the co-edited volume The Politics of Food (2004). She is head of the research program “Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances” (Norwegian Research Council).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceby Bruce KapfererList of figuresChapter 1. IntroductionMarianne E. Lien and Marit MelhuusChapter 2. Trust and reciprocity in Transnational flowsThomas Hylland EriksenChapter 3. Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoptionSigne HowellChapter 4. Procreative imaginations. When experts disagree on the meanings of kinshipMarit MelhuusChapter 5. Family tracings. Global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogiesSarah LundChapter 6. The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism. Dominicans in New York CityChristian Krohn-HansenChapter 7. Weeding Tasmanian bush. Biomigration and landscape imageryMarianne E. LienChapter 8. Epochs of scale-making in PapuaEric HirschChapter 9. Standardised uniqueness. Rearticulating identiy in a Norwegian townErik HenningsenChapter 10. Arresting mobility or locating expertise: ‘Globalisation’ and the ‘knowledge society’Penny HarveyNotes on contributorsIndex

Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has done research on food, consumption, economic anthropology, aquaculture and biomigration. Publications include Marketing and Modernity (1997) and the co-edited volume The Politics of Food (2004). She is head of the research program “Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances” (Norwegian Research Council).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceby Bruce KapfererList of figuresChapter 1. IntroductionMarianne E. Lien and Marit MelhuusChapter 2. Trust and reciprocity in Transnational flowsThomas Hylland EriksenChapter 3. Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoptionSigne HowellChapter 4. Procreative imaginations. When experts disagree on the meanings of kinshipMarit MelhuusChapter 5. Family tracings. Global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogiesSarah LundChapter 6. The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism. Dominicans in New York CityChristian Krohn-HansenChapter 7. Weeding Tasmanian bush. Biomigration and landscape imageryMarianne E. LienChapter 8. Epochs of scale-making in PapuaEric HirschChapter 9. Standardised uniqueness. Rearticulating identiy in a Norwegian townErik HenningsenChapter 10. Arresting mobility or locating expertise: ‘Globalisation’ and the ‘knowledge society’Penny HarveyNotes on contributorsIndex