Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. 'Given anthropology's long-standing attention to relatively powerless groups and to the relationships between the researcher and the research subjects, we are particularly beholden to query the paradoxical effects of globalisation on our own production of knowledge. This book, and the larger project of which it is part, is to be lauded for raising these issues.'Anthropological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2008