@article {63671,
	title = {Virtual Kinship, Real Estate, and Diaspora Formation - The Man Lineage Revisited (a Presidential Address to the Association for},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Nov 1, 2004},
	abstract = {Unlike our historian friends, anthropologists do not have the luxury of drawing a line in the sands of time and declaring a closure date for our research. Ethnography never ends. Even the demise of the original field{\textendash}worker does not conclude the enterprise, given the inevitability of re{\textendash}studies (usually conducted by younger scholars eager to overthrow past paradigms). This article is a product of contemporary ethnography; it describes a project that has a beginning but no clear end. At some point during the 1990s, the research took on a life of its own and, if anyone is in charge, it is certainly not the ethnographer. In many respects, therefore, the project parallels the digital revolution: decentered, unpredictable, and \&quot;out of control.\&quot; My address focuses on the long{\textendash}term consequences of international migration and the historical dynamics of diaspora formation. The research is longitudinal in the sense that it tracks a single, tightly bound kinship group during thirty{\textendash}five years of field research. From its inception, this has been what anthropologists refer to as a multisited ethnography, even though that term had not been invented when the research began (see Marcus 1995). The project started in 1969 as a \&quot;typical\&quot; (for that era) village study, focusing on a Cantonese community of two thousand people.},
	author = {Watson, James L.}
}
