Subject(s): Public welfare. -- Social service. -- Ethnology. -- Research and practice in anthropology of welfare, questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community, concepts of community in changing health care- study of change in midwifery practice, child welfare debate in Portugal, welfare, gender ideology and mothers center in southern Germany, co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers- applying grind and group to studies of community care, caring communities or effective networks- community care and people with learning difficulties in south Wales, staff models and practice- managing trouble in a community based program for chronically mentally ill adults in USA -- Local anthropology of exclusion, considering culture of community care- anthropological accounts of experiences of frontline carers, older people and researchers, treasures on earth- housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand, residents participation in management of retirement housing in UK, using experiential research method- potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research