The contributions are based on ethnographic field work in East and South
East Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Americas and Europe, in rural and in
urban settings. Methodology-based ethnography - qualitative and
quantitative alike - is basic to an understanding of anthropology as an
empirical social science. The contributions to this "Festschrift" to
Hartmut Lang cover a broad range of topics connected to networks,
resources and economic action.