It happens among people : resonances and extensions of the work of Fredrik Barth / edited by Keping Wu and Robert P. Weller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Robert P. Weller and Keping Wu -- Humility first : Fredrik Barth in his own words-and mine / Unni Wikan -- Transacting knowledge and value : Fredrik Barth and the tactics of mutual incomprehension / Michael Herzfeld -- Cosmologiesin the remaking : variation and time in Chinese temple religion / Robert P. Weller -- Building infrastructure and making boundaries in southwest China / Keping Wu -- On nomads of south Persia / Thomas Barfield -- The language of trust and betrayal / Gunnar Haaland -- Khan and Sufi : two types of authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan / Charles Lindholm -- Values and the value of secrecy : Barthian reflections on values and the nature of Mountain Ok social process / Joel Robbins -- Paradigm change in Chinese ethnology and Fredrik Barth's influence / Ke Fan -- An overall generative approach : Fredrik Barth's contribution to anthropological research and writing / Chee-Beng Tan -- Afterword : a rooted cosmopolitan remembered / Ulf Hannerz.

"Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth's pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential creativity, as well as continuing to develop the relevance for his work as a way of thinking about and beyond the state. The work is grounded on his insistence that theory should grow only from observed life"-- Provided by publisher.