Introduction: Discriminating relations - identity, boundary and authenticity / ANTHONY P. COHEN -- PART I: Boundary. 1. Boundaries and connections / FREDRIK BARTH -- 2. Maori and modernity: Ruatara's dying / ANNE SALMOND -- 3. Violence and the work of time / VEENA DAS -- PART II: Identity. 4. Aboriginality, authenticity and the Settler world / ROBERT PAINE -- 5. Peripheral wisdom / JAMES W. FERNANDEZ -- 6. Peripheral vision: nationalism, national identity and the objective correlative in Scotland / ANTHONY P. COHEN