PROVOCATION OF EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY

What is the relevance of Europeanist ethnography for anthropological t heory generally? Considering a region usually regarded as the source r ather than an object of anthropology and colonialism alike, seven anth ropologists reflexively address, inter alia, the implications of study ing spaces already deeply explored by other disciplines, the potential of economic history to defamiliarize Eurocentric models and of recent events to illuminate such concepts as state and market, the meaning o f ''West'' as a specific locus of power and reification, the limits of the ''local'' as the focus of ethnography, and the tensions among pol itically and culturally disparate entities within emergent ideologies of cultural unity.