一般注記Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies / Fredrik Barth -- The global ecumene as a network of networks / Ulf Hannerz -- Comparison, a universal for anthropology : from 're-presentation' to the comparison of hierarchies of values / Daniel de Coppet -- Parts and wholes : refiguring relationships in a post-plural world / Marilyn Strathern -- Societies of nature and the nature of society / Philippe Descola -- What goes without saying : the conceptualization of Zafimaniry society / Maurice Bloch.
The first of six volumes of papers from the first conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists held in the summer of 1990 in Coimbra, Portugal.