The anthology was spawned in a May 1998 Baltic-Scandinavian research workshop of anthropologists and other social scientists in Tartu on the Baltic shore. Over the years, papers were rewritten and others invited to form a cross-disciplinary examination of how people can find their bearings in dealing with imagined natures, conflicting identities, and contested cosmologies both in the northern corner of the world and on a global scale. There is no subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
