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Solrun Williksen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. She has published widely on her main research areas of Fiji and Norway. Her interests include ceremonial life and ritual performance, memory, narrative and communication, refugees and immigrants and global ‘interference’ with the local and rural. Her publications in English include Memory and External Reference Points among Fijians in (Urban) Fiji (Bijdragen 2001), “Fijian Business—a Bone of Contention” in The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2002), “Can a ‘silent’ person be a ‘business’ person? The Concept of ‘Mãduã’ in Fijian Culture” in The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2004), and “On the Run: The Narrative of an Asylum Seeker,” in Cultures of Fear, eds. Linke and Taana Smith (Pluto 2009).

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. His research interests include: social theory, phenomenology, identity and individuality, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy. His books include “I am Dynamite”: An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge 2003); Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts (Routledge 2007); also, as editor, Human Nature as Capacity: Beyond Discourse and Classification (Berghahn 2010).