Investigates why the concept of individuality is important to people, and how it varies in different social settings worldwide

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Together with Nigel Rapport, she is the author of The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002) and editor of Claiming Individuality (2006). Noel Dyck is Professor of Social Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author or editor of seven previous books.