Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by
virtue of its members' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times
and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad
ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in
the double sense of ´'past' and 'abroad.' This book is a tribute to
Jukka's contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and
marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant,
inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their
reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for
addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world.