The articles collected here trace the intellectual journey of Christian Giordano, head of the Social Anthropology Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reader will be transported to places Giordano has explored, loved, or merely visited, from Sicily to Malaysia, from Switzerland to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each article illustrates a facet of his work. The journey starts with biographical sketches and continues through different fields of Political Anthropology (Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Rural Studies, Trust, Postcolonial Studies, Honour). It ends with reflections on the use and abuse of Anthropology.

This volume presents research on intercultural relations in southeastern Europe, including the way they are imagined and managed in different social and historical contexts. After an introductory critique of the concepts of interculturalism and citizenship, the situation in Romania is investigated. The second part deals with a series of in-depth comparative studies, namely on the Roma minorities in Romania and Bulgaria. It also considers the case of the Pomaks in Bulgaria, of Russians living in parallel societies in the Baltic States, and the recent evolution of interculturalism in the region.

"Franois Regg" is a researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland). "Rudolf Poledna" is a researcher at the Babes-Bolyai-University Cluj-Napoca (Romania). "Calin Rus" is chair of the Communications and Public Relations Department at the Babes-Bolyai-University, Cluj-Napoca.