Reveries of Home: Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place

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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 Businessa 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).