Acknowledgements.
Introduction ( Joan Vincent ).

Part I: Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges.

Introduction.

Adam Ferguson , Civil Society (1767).

Adam Smith , Free-Market Policies (1776).

Immanuel Kant , Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797).

Henry Sumner Maine , The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887).

Lewis Henry Morgan , The Property Career of Mankind (1877).

Karl Marx , Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844).

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , The World Market (1847).

James Mooney , The Dream of a Redeemer (1896).

Part II: Classics and Classics Revisited.

Introduction.

1. Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) ( E.E. Evans-Pritchard ).

2. Nuer Ethnicity Militarized ( Sharon Elaine Hutchinson ).

3. "The Bridge":Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand ( Max Gluckman ).

4. "The Bridge" Revisited ( Ronald Frankenberg ).

5. Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization ( Talal Asad ).

6. The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala ( E. R. Leach ).

7. Stratagems and Spoils ( F. G. Bailey ).

8. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas ( Victor W. Turner ).

9. Political Anthropology ( Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden ).

10. New Proposals for Anthropologists ( Kathleen Gough ).

11. National Liberation ( Eric R. Wolf ).

Part III: Imperial Times, Colonial Places.

Introduction.

12. From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony ( Talal Asad ).

13. East of Said ( Richard G. Fox ).

14. Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra ( Ann Stoler ).

15. Culture of Terror - Space of Death ( Michael Taussig ).

16. Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat ( William Roseberry ).

17. Of Revelation and Revolution ( Jean and John Comaroff ).

18. Between Speech and Silence ( Susan Gal ).

19. Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions ( Eric R. Wolf ).

20. Ethnographic Aspects of The World Capitalist System ( June Nash ).

Part IV: Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium.

Introduction.

21. The New World Disorder: ( Benedict Anderson ).

22. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination ( Arjun Appadurai ).

23. Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony ( Jonathan Friedman ).

24. Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations ( S. P. Reyna ).

25. Modernity at the Edge of Empire ( David Nugent ).

26. Politics on the Periphery ( Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ).

27. Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans ( Aihwa Ong ).

28. Long-distance Nationalism Defined ( Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron ).

29. Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the "Transition" ( Katherine Verdery ).

30. Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind ( Caroline Humphrey ).

31. The Anti-politics Machine ( James Ferguson ).

32. Peasants against Globalization ( Marc Edelman ).

33. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below ( Paul Farmer ).

34. Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy ( John Gledhill ).

35. Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality ( Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ).

Index.