Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The Challenges—and Pleasures—of Switching Fieldsites 1
4. 1. Unexpected Ties: Insight, Love, Exhaustion 18
5. 2. From Local to Global Ethnographic Scenarios 35
6. 3. Field and Home, Self and Memory in Papua New Guinea and California 49
7. 4. Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an “Animist Bush” and in an Urban Diaspora 81
8. 5. Passionate Serendipity: From the Acropolis to the Golden Mount 100
9. 6. Traditions and Transitions: From Market Women in the Andes to Adoptive Families in the United States 123
10. 7. Around the World in Sixty Years: From Native America to Indonesia to Tourism and Beyond 138
11. Afterword 159
12. Work Cited 165
13. About the Authors 183
14. Index 187