| | List of Contributors | | |
| | Acknowledgments | | |
| | Introduction: A World in Motion by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo | | 1 |
1 | | Notes on the Global Ecumene by Ulf Hannerz | | 37 |
2 | | Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy by Arjun Appadurai | | 46 |
3 | | Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson | | 65 |
4 | | Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbadoss Off-shore Pink-collar Sector by Carla Freeman | | 83 |
5 | | A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands by Bill Maurer | | 100 |
6 | | Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism by James Ferguson | | 136 |
7 | | Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism by Roger Rouse | | 157 |
8 | | The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits by Aihwa Ong | | 172 |
9 | | Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities by Joan Gross and David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg | | 198 |
10 | | Globalization and Localization by Jonathan Friedman | | 233 |
11 | | Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana by Birgit Meyer | | 247 |
12 | | The Global Traffic in Human Organs by Nancy Scheper-Hughes | | 270 |
13 | | Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading by Eric Michaels | | 311 |
14 | | Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang | | 325 |
15 | | Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities by Brian Larkin | | 350 |
16 | | Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet by Vincanne Adams | | 381 |
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