Thomas Hylland Eriksen

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Meer

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Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century – a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of ‘liquid modernity’ – or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation. Meer

New edition of this core text for all students of social anthropology. Additions include cultural property rights and commercialisation of identity. Meer