Returns¿third in a trilogy¿explores the ways people recover and renew their roots. James Clifford looks at native peoples who have become not victims but inventive agents of a tangled, open-ended modernity. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving toward ¿traditional futures.¿

James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.