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Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation.

Ethnology. --- Anthropological studies. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Migration; Mobility; Transformation; Urban Studies; Networks; Skills; Ethnological Studies; Anthropological Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnology; Economic Sociology; Sociology --- Kokot, Waltraud. --- Anthropological Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Economic Sociology. --- Ethnological Studies. --- Mobility. --- Networks. --- Skills. --- Sociology. --- Transformation. --- Urban Studies.

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Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen’s finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Ethnoscience. --- Ethnoscience --- Nature --- Effect of human beings on. --- academia. --- academic. --- anthropological studies. --- anthropology. --- biocultural diversity. --- biological. --- civic. --- conservationism. --- cultural social. --- cultural studies. --- diversity. --- eastern indonesia. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- environmental anthropology. --- environmental conservation protection. --- environmental issues. --- essay collection. --- essays. --- ethnic studies. --- ethnobiology. --- ethnobotany. --- ethnography. --- ethnology. --- historical. --- human ecology. --- indigenous peoples. --- nature. --- nuaulu people. --- scientific writing. --- social issues.

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From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research.

Medical anthropology. --- Psychiatry, Transcultural. --- academic training. --- anthropological studies. --- anthropology. --- chinese culture. --- clinical care. --- clinical interviews. --- clinical perspective. --- consultation psychiatry. --- cross cultural psychiatry. --- cross cultural teaching. --- cross cultural. --- culture. --- east asia. --- ethnography. --- field research. --- health justice. --- health studies. --- health. --- healthcare. --- history of medicine. --- medical anthropology. --- medical history. --- medical. --- medicine. --- mental health project. --- mental health. --- psychiatry. --- psychology. --- social culture. --- social science. --- taiwan. --- theoretical framework.