Contributes various new analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, compartmentalized communities.

1 Reconceptualizing community 2 The mining community and the ageing body: Towards a phenomenology of community? 3 Community as place-making: Ram auctions in the Scottish borderland 4 Cultural islands in the globalizing world: Communitcum-locality of the Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans 5 Community beyond place: Adoptive families in Norway 6 ‘Have you been to Hayward Field?’: Children’s sport and the construction of community in suburban Canada 7 The ethnographic field revisited: Towards a study of common and not so common fields of belonging 8 Post-cultural anthropology: The ironization of values in a world of movement 9 Epilogue