INTRODUCTION

Considering Contemporary Forms and Meanings of the Social:The Anthropology of Europe

Akiko Mori

I. SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY

The Extending Horizons of Rural Malta: 1960-2010

Jeremy Boissevain

An Anthropological Study of Charities: Social Activities and Change in an English Rural Community

Yuko Shioji

Storytelling Practices and the Formation of Collective Experience: Narratives of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

Tomoko Sakai

II. SOLIDARITY AND INDIVIDUALISM

Sociability and Associations in Rural French Jura: Justice, Property Rights and Moral Economy

Atsushi Miura

The Morality of Illegal Practice: French Farmers’ Conceptions of Globalization

Osamu Nakagawa

Halfway Down to Solitude: Ageing as the Process of Engagement/Disengagement through Social Welfare in Finland

Erika Takahashi

III. CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS AND COMMUNAL ENTITIES

Individuals as Actors of Social Change: A Case Study of the Revitalisation of El Camino de Fisterra-Muxía and Costa da Morte in Galicia, Spain

Hiroko Takenaka

Cultural Heritage Issues in Turkey and the Category of ‘Europe’: Roman Mosaic Collections Discovered in Zeugma, Southeast Turkey

Eisuke Tanaka

Customizing Places: Pilgrimage Sites, Holy Statues, and the Moment of ‘Connectedness’ in Contemporary Malta

Kuniko Fujiwara

IV. SOME REMARKS TO OPEN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN EUROPE AND JAPAN

An Anthropologist of Japan from Europe Looks at the Anthropology of Europe from Japan

Joy Hendry

The Inside of Outside: From Another Native’s Point of View

Gergely Mohácsi

List of Contributors