In this session, we will consider how and why intensive local study can reveal aspects of larger entities such as regional and national identity, relations between community and administrative structures, the role of nationalism and ethnicity, and the capacity of anthropologists to comment critically and usefully on issues that extend far beyond the borders of the communities and other entities that they study. We ask how anthropologists should calibrate their field sites to these larger issues: what are the appropriate methods and cautions? How, for example, does an anthropologist working in a rural Greek community understand the forces afflicting the European Union as a whole? How does an anthropologist do fieldwork in something like the European Union or the European Central Bank?
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