Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words—and Mine 17
6. 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension 44
7. 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple Religion 61
8. 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China 82
9. 5. On Nomads of South Persia 104
10. 6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal 121
11. 7. Khan and Sufi: Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan 141
12. 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process 159
13. 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence 171
14. 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth’s Contribution to Anthropological Research and Writing 191
15. Afterword. A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered 209
16. Index 221