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This Major Work is an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes; i) Moorings: include articles -- by cultural anthropologists and others -- that have had a particularly forceful impact on the anthropological imagination in the last fifty years; ii) Modernities: explores the many ways cultural anthropologists have examined, critiqued and been part of modernist projects articles will work through topics such as nationalism, citizenship, human rights, etc.; iii) Emergence, explore anthropological work that has focused on the re-making of society and culture in the wake of massive change such as "globalization"; v) Engagements, examines engagements between anthropologists in different national and culltural contexts, engagements with other disciplines and engagements with the public sphere