Sandra Bamford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the editor of Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, and coeditor of Genealogy--Beyond Kinship: Sequence, Transmission and Essence in Ethnography and Social Theory.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks 1. Cultural Landscapes 2. Insubstantial Identities 3. Embodiments of Detachment 4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings 5. Conceiving Global Identities Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements Notes References Index

Sandra Bamford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the editor of Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, and coeditor of Genealogy--Beyond Kinship: Sequence, Transmission and Essence in Ethnography and Social Theory.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks 1. Cultural Landscapes 2. Insubstantial Identities 3. Embodiments of Detachment 4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings 5. Conceiving Global Identities Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements Notes References Index

Sandra Bamford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the editor of Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, and coeditor of Genealogy--Beyond Kinship: Sequence, Transmission and Essence in Ethnography and Social Theory.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks 1. Cultural Landscapes 2. Insubstantial Identities 3. Embodiments of Detachment 4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings 5. Conceiving Global Identities Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements Notes References Index