Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West.

1. World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo EscobarPart 1: Transnationalism and State Power2. Reshaping Anthropology: A View from Japan Shinji Yamashita3. Transformations in Siberian Anthropology: An Insider's Perspective Nikolai Vakhtin4. In Search of Anthropology in China: A Discipline Caught in a Web of Nation Building, Socialist Capitalism, and Globalization Josephine Smart5. Mexican Anthropology's Ongoing Search for Identity Esteban KrotzPart 2: Power and Hegemony in World Anthropologies6. How Many Centers and Peripheries in Anthropology? A Critical View of France Eduardo P. Archetti7. The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Hegemony: Anthropological Theory and Political Struggles in Spain Susana Narotzky8. Anthropology in a Postcolonial Africa: The Survival Debate Paul Nchoji NkwiPart 3: Epistemological, Sociological, and Disciplinary Predicaments9. Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations: Anthropology in the United Kingdom Eeva Berglund10. The Production of Other Knowledges and Its Tensions: From Andeanist Anthropology to Interculturalidad? Marisol de la Cadena11. A Time and Place beyond and of the Center: Australian Anthropologies in the Process of Becoming Sandy Toussaint12. Official Hegemony and Contesting Pluralisms Shiv VisvanathanPart 4: From Anthropology Today to World Anthropologies13. The Pictographics of Tristesse: An Anthropology of Nation Building in the Tropics and Its Aftermath Otavio Velho14. "World Anthropologies": Questions Johannes Fabian