Confronting the present: Toward a politically engaged anthropolog

Selective traditions; Politically engaged social enquiry and images of society; Cultural differentiations; The production of culture in local rebellion; Secrets agents, hidden meanings: dominnation and resistance re-examined; Modernity and New Socio-Economic Forms; Knowing their place: regional economies an the social construction of place in Western Europe; Towards an ethnographic method for the study of "Informalized" regional economies in Western Europe; Disciplined practices; Overlapping collectivities: Local concern, state welfare and social membership; The dialectics of history and will: The Janus face of hegemonic processes.