ABSTRACT
'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|24 pages
Cultural islands in the globalizing world: Community- cum-locality of the Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans
Community-cum-locality of the Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans Introductory remarks
chapter 6|19 pages
‘Have you been to Hayward Field?’: Children’s sport and the construction of community in suburban
Children’s sport and the construction of community in suburban Canada
chapter 7|22 pages
The ethnographic field revisited
Towards a study of common and not so common fields of belonging
