US and Canadian anthropologists gathered in Toronto during May 2007 for a symposium subtitled Contemporary Routes of Indigenous Signification and Interaction beyond Stereotypes of the Local or Hype of the Global. The event led to this volume, which discusses such topics as a Carib canoe circling in the culture of the open sea, Aboriginal hip hoppers, David Neel's The Young Chief--Waswasam as a cosmopolitan treatise, whither the historicities of Alutiiq heritage work are drifting, transnational migration and indigeneity in Canada as exemplified by urban Inuit, and semi-utopian post-nationalism. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)