Terms including structural (herzfeld 2004) synthetic, synthetic (strathern 1995), armchair (appadurai), colonial (Bissel 2005), imperialist (rosaldo 1989), pratical (battaglia), resistant (stewrd 1988) and for the future (piot 2010) hagebeen applied to it in order to dea with its complexiy, at the intersection of fhe individual, the social and the political.