0.1. Some movements in anthropology seem for a while to pass over Britain on their way from the Continent to the States or vice versa. Two years ago I (myself an economic migrant to Britain) found myself the only representative of the UK at the initial, agenda-setting, meeting of the International Rhetoric Culture Project at Mainz in Germany in February 2002, though both continental Europe and the rest of the Anglophone world were well represented. The second meeting in 2002, devoted to an encounter between anthropologists and linguists, bypassed the British Isles completely. Some Britons--Dick Werbner (a migrant like me), David Zeitlyn, and by virtue of his passport, Michael Herzfeld--appeared at the third conference, on religion and social relations, which took place in February 2005. But only at the fourth conference--on rhetoric culture in economic and political life, set for this coming July 2005--will British anthropologists finally send a substantial contingent.