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Foreword: The national question and socialism -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- What is a society? -- Is there mankind and in what form does It exist? -- Nation and society - concrete and abstract concepts -- Society, nation, state -- People, nation, state -- Nation -- Homeland -- International law and mankind -- Socialism, nation and mankind -- The right of a nation -- The dignity and priority of a nation -- The Fund of Mankind, possible future -- Theories of nation -- The Georgian nation -- Conclusion: The ideal and the practice.

Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual

This text uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop an understanding of disparate themes, including conflict, power, agency, morality, emotion and gender. It brings together two methodological traditions - microscopic analysis of unelicited interaction and macroscopic interpretation of social practice