Tabla de Contenidos: “…On history and history writing -- The challenges of writing a history of ancient Israel -- The natural setting -- The database: sites and hierarchies -- Cities and towns -- Towns, villages, and everyday life -- Socioeconomic structures -- Religion and cult -- Israel's neighbors -- Warfare and the end…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Accidental journalism' -- The journalist as professional observer -- Bearing witness, making news -- Witnessing crises in a digital era -- News, civic protest and social networking -- WikiLeaks : citizen as journalist, journalist as citizen -- 'The global village of images'…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…multicultural borderland -- cultural and religious diversity -- ethnic identity -- Poland -- Belarus -- Orthodox and Catholic religiousness -- peasant culture -- funeral rituals -- dead remembering -- peasant cemeteries -- food practices and sharing -- religiously mixed families and neighborhood -- village communities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Home movies in a global village -- The home and family on YouTube -- video diaries: the real you in YouTube -- Women of the 'Tube -- The YouTube community -- The YouTube wars: politics, religion, and armed conflict -- The post-television audience…”

“…An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Oi -- Collective enterprise and property rights in a Sichuan Village / Gregory A. Ruf -- Local institutions and the transformation of property rights in Southern Fujain / Chih-Jou Jay Chen -- The role of local government in creating property rights / Xiaolin Guo -- The evolution of property rights in village enterprises / James Kai-Sing Kung -- Shareholding cooperatives / Eduard B. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Cultural order and discipline : the politics of national culture -- The origins of the Lao people : in search of an autonomous history -- An "heroic village" -- Ethnic classification and mapping nationhood -- From inclusion to re-marginalization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…M' bifé -- M' bifé balafon -- Coulibaly -- La réalité -- Sénégal fast food -- Artistiya -- La fête au village -- Camions sauvages -- Beaux dimanches -- La paix -- Djanfa -- Taxi bamako -- Politic amagni -- Gnidjougouya -- M' bifé blues…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Traders and artisans in global economic thinking -- Urban planning and economic informality in Nairobi -- Urban theory and the 'African metropolis' -- The indigenisation of Nairobi -- The 'African metropolis' in Nairobi -- The utu-ubuntu business model -- Utu-ubuntu nests, bonds and associations -- Towards the formation of autonomous communities -- Cultural villages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Traders and artisans in global economic thinking -- Urban planning and economic informality in Nairobi -- Urban theory and the 'African metropolis' -- The indigenisation of Nairobi -- The 'African metropolis' in Nairobi -- The utu-ubuntu business model -- Utu-ubuntu nests, bonds and associations -- Towards the formation of autonomous communities -- Cultural villages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Coming to a Halt -- When the World Comes to a Halt -- “You Have to Know How to Wait” -- Staying in the Village -- Circulating -- In the Future Now -- Circulating Visions of the Future -- Contributors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson…”

“…Of course, this makes it impossible to distinguish the village priest from the village atheist, or Communism from Catholicism. …”