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This book is one more step towards accomplishing the mission the World Council of Anthropological Associations has set up. I am particularly pleased that this publication will bring the possibility of debate about world anthropologies to the growing Chinese anthropological community. Hopefully£¬ it will one day be published in one or more of the languages spoken in China. I would like to thank our Chinese colleagues not only for their hospitality in Kunming£¬ but also for this opportunity to disseminate our ideas in their country. Finally£¬ I thank the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for sponsoring the symposium in Kunming£¬ and all the authors who took their time to rework their papers into the texts that follow this foreword.