Includes index.

Introduction to an engaging discipline : the challenge of creating a companion to contemporary anthropology / Simon Coleman, Susan Brin Hyatt, and Ann Kingsolver -- Engaging theory in the new millennium / Faye V. Harrison -- Participating, observing, witnessing / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Beyond sites and methods : the field, history and global capitalism / Patrick Neveling -- Anthropology and the Internet / Anna Stewart -- Hand in hand : homelessness, heritage and collaborative approaches to the material past / Rachael Kiddey -- Communicating anthropology : writing, screening, and exhibiting culture / Paul Basu --Teaching anthropological theory in neoliberal times / Elizabeth Chin -- Doing and being : process, essence and hierarchy in making kin / Susan McKinnon -- "Religion" after religion, "ritual" after ritual / Jon Bialecki -- Language, gender, and desire in performance / Peter C. Haney -- Selves and codified bodies / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- Law and politics : an anthropological history, and research and practice among vulnerable populations / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Objectifying economies : contemporary themes in the anthropology of economic knowledge and practice / Daromir Rudnycki -- Research, representation, redemption and repatriation : archaeology and community relationships in 21st century America / Joe Watkins -- Critical biocultural anthropology : a model for anthropological integration / Thomas Leatherman and Morgan Hoke -- Anthropology and science / Jonathan Marks -- Joined at the head : anthropology, geography and the environment / Michael J. Watts -- Entangled subjects and art objects / Shelly Errington -- Psychological anthropology : an awkward hybrid? / Andrew Beatty -- Whither anthropology in public policy? : reflections from India / Soumendra Patnaik -- Health and anthropology in the era of anthropogenic climatic and environmental change / Merrill Singer -- Immersive politics and the ethnographic encounter : anthropology and political science / Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin -- Social movements as process / Marianne Maeckelbergh -- Ethnography as aprendizaje : growing and using collaborative knowledge with the People's Produce Project in San Diego / Anna L. Anderson-Lazo --Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural citizenship and migration / Mattia Fumanti.