Globalization as a phenomenon has had an inordinate impact on the teaching and practice of anthropology. These papers and essays address the methodological problems that have arisen and in so doing fill a major gap in the contemporary study and teaching of the subject.

Topics explored include the methodology of studying on the internet; global and spacial identities in the Caribbean; shifting boundaries in coastal communities; the anthropology of political life; issues of law and the flow of human substances; and the diffusion of moral values created by globalization.

Introduction, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
several sites in one - on multisited fieldwork, Daniel Miller and Don Slater
global places and spatial identities -perspectives from Caribbean research, Karen Fog Olwig
into our time - the anthropology of political life in the era of globalization, Christian Krohn-Hansen
shifting boundaries of a coastal community - tracing changes on the margin, Marianne Lien
considering global/local relations - beyond dualism, Knut Nustad
anthropologies in policies, anthropologies in places, Simone Abram
commemorating global acts - a Norwegian way of holding an emigrant world together, Sarah Lund
exchange matters - issues of law and the flow of human substances, Marit Melhuus
the diffusion of moral values in a global perspective, Signe Howell
epilogue - Keith Hart.