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Contents

List of Figures

Introduction
Robert P. Weller and Keping Wu

Chapter 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words – and Mine
Unni Wikan

Chapter 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension
Michael Herzfeld

Chapter 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple Religion
Robert P. Weller

Chapter 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China
Keping Wu

Chapter 5. On Nomads of South Persia
Thomas Barfield

Chapter 6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal
Gunnar Haaland

Chapter 7. Khan and Sufi:  Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan
Charles Lindholm

Chapter 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process
Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence
Ke Fan

Chapter 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth's Contribution to Anthropological Research and Writing
Chee-Beng Tan

Afterword: A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered
Ulf Hannerz

Index

It Happens Among People

Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

Edited by Keping Wu and Robert P. Weller
Afterword by Ulf Hannerz

242 pages, 5 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78920-428-5 Hb Published (November 2019)

eISBN 978-1-78920-429-2 eBook