The anthropologist author continues his experiences as he travels to meet colleagues and then after retirement for his own explaration. That introduces him to foods of several countries. But his wife dies under strange circumstances, he is accused, imprisoned in France and Switerland, is subjected to a strange trial and found not guiltry. he has trouble adjusting afterwards but pursues new objectives in the digital age.

In this challenging book Cyril Belshaw uses anthropological themes not only to identify the connections between global and personal issues but to set forth a programme of solutions. Professor Tom Moynihan writes: "His most... empowering insight is his insistence on a holistic account of what has to be done.... to consider the smallest, most intimate, most personal detail.... along with the largest most systemic considerations... he builds a vision of world governance that has deep roots in radical thinking...." Among the topics he links together are issues of youth maturity, violence health...

Cyril Belshaw's career began as a colonial officer in the South Pacific where he later did fieldwork with his family. He describes the arcne world of academia and recounts his work for United Nations and other international organisatiions. He travels widely in countries such as the Soviet Union, Thailand, Israel and Cambodia and in Africa. His long concluding chapter, before he moves on to Volume II celebrates the food and country of France.

In Volume I our anthropologist carried out fieldwork in the South Pacific, travelled widely to represent anthropology, and enjoyed world foods. Here he extends his life work with international assignments and food studies. In an unexplained tragedy he loses his wife and faces court accusations in Switzerland. He returns to face life in Vancouver forcing himself to complete his international work. He completes his term as editor of Current Anthropology and discovers new challenges on the internet where he establishes a multimedia anthropology journal and a guide to his city's exceptional...

Cyril Belshaw likes to explore outside the box. He has been called "the anthropologist of anthropology". He has been told "You are not really an anthropologist." Whether or not such statements are accurate, he does like to find new paths so that often his contributions appear away from the main roads of publication. Thus in the hopes of stimulating discussion, perhaps mew applications, and debate amongst graduate students and colleagues alike he has brought some of them together here. He is now approaching his nineties so that some of his ideas date back as far as the forties while some...

Let the global spring begin. Cyril Belshaw challenges us to get on with the job. Don' just imagine. Get on with it. Use the growing power of the populace. MANIFESTO FOR THE NEW AGE argues that global society is the result of all our individual decisions. If we choose to behave differently the world can be the kind of place we all desire. But what to choose? The Manifesto checks out the possibilities. In doing so the author binds the subject chapters together with a holistic method so that each relates to the others. He moves as seamlessly as he can from family and education all the way up to...