David Nugent & Joan Vincent 
A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics [PDF ebook] 

Synopsis of Contents viii
Preface xv
Notes on Contributors xvi
Introduction 1
Joan Vincent
1 Affective States 4
Ann Laura Stoler
2 After Socialism 21
Katherine Verdery
3 AIDS 37
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
4 Citizenship 55
Aihwa Ong
5 Cosmopolitanism 69
Ulf Hannerz
6 Development 86
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
7 Displacement 107
Elizabeth Colson
8 Feminism 121
Malathi de Alwis
9 Gender, Race, and Class 135
Micaela di Leonardo
10 Genetic Citizenship 152
Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig
11 The Global City 168
Saskia Sassen
12 Globalization 179
Jonathan Friedman
13 Governing States 198
David Nugent
14 Hegemony 216
Gavin Smith
15 Human Rights 231
Richard Ashby Wilson
16 Identity 248
Arturo Escobar
17 Imagining Nations 267
Akhil Gupta
18 Infrapolitics 282
Steven Gregory
19 »Mafias» 303
Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider
20 Militarization 318
Catherine Lutz
21 Neoliberalism 332
John Gledhill
22 Popular Justice 349
Robert Gordon
23 Postcolonialism 367
K. Sivaramakrishnan
24 Power Topographies 383
James Ferguson
25 Race Technologies 400
Thomas Biolsi
26 Sovereignty 418
Caroline Humphrey
27 Transnational Civil Society 437
June Nash
28 Transnationality 448
Nina Glick Schiller
Index 468

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University.
He is President-Elect, American Ethnological Society and North
American Editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He
is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State,
Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes (1997),
and the editor of Locating Capitalism in Time and Space
(2002).
Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at
Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of numerous
books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. Her
works include Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued
1995) and The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography,
Theory, and Critique (Blackwell, 2002).