For those who seek to make sense of contemporary processes of culture globalization and transnational culture flows, these theoretical developments raise a rich set of ethnographic possibilities. Rather than opposing autonomous local cultures to a homogenizing movement of culture globalization, the authors in this volume seek to trace the ways in which dominant culture forms may be picked up and used – and significantly transformed – in the midst of the field of power relations that links localities to a wider world. The emphasis is on the complex and sometimes ironic political processes through which cultural forms are imposed, invented, reworked, and transformed. The sense of culture as a space of order and agreed-on meanings, meanwhile, undergoes a transformation of its own in the process. Rather than simply a domain of sharing and commonality, culture figures here more as a site of difference and contestation, simultaneously ground and stake of a rich field of cultural-political practices.