World Watching

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Prospectus : stops along the way -- The notion of ghetto culture -- Washington and Kafanchan : a view of urban anthropology -- The management of danger -- Marginal entrepreneurship and economic change in the Cayman Islands -- Tools of identity and imagination -- The world in creolization -- Flows, boundaries and hybrids : keywords in transnational anthropology -- Other transnationals : perspectives gained from studying sideways -- Being there ... and there ... and there! : reflections on multi-site ethnography -- Foreign correspondents and the varieties of cosmopolitanism -- Touring Soweto : culture and memory in urban South Africa -- Reflections on varieties of culturespeak -- A detective story writer : exploring Stockholm as it once was -- Neighbors in a south Swedish village : globalization, small-scale and unexpected.