In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Elizabeth A. Povinelli
pp. vii-viii
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From the Field

Anne-Maria Makhulu, Mads Vestergaard
p. 643
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Controversies

Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos

Joseph Masco
pp. 441-467
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Pioneering Spirit: An Interview with Ellen Spiro

Ellen Spiro, Scott MacDonald
pp. 469-475
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Historic Truths / Looking at Earth

John Martone
pp. 477-492
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Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt

Julia Elyachar
pp. 493-513
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"First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process

Rebecca L. Stein
pp. 515-543
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"The Taste Remains": Consumption, (N)ostalgia, and the Production of East Germany

Jonathan P. G. Bach
pp. 545-556
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Mud for the Land

Nicholas K. Blomley
pp. 557-582
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African Modes of Self-Writing Revisited

Obverse Denominations: Africa?

Ato Quayson
pp. 585-588
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Toward a Critique of Consumer Imperialism

Paul Gilroy
pp. 589-591
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The Subject in Africa: In Foucault's Footsteps

Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Jennifer Curtiss Gage
pp. 593-598
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Contemplating Uncertainty

Jane I. Guyer
pp. 599-602
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Afro-Pessimism's Many Guises

Bennetta Jules-Rosette
pp. 603-605
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The Power of Words

Françoise Vergès
pp. 607-610
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Historical Colonialism in Contemporary Perspective

Arif Dirlik
pp. 611-615
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Postcolonial Performatives of Victimization

Kimberly Wedeven Segall
pp. 617-619
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Keeping Africanity Open

Souleymane Bachir Diagne
pp. 621-623
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Social Imaginary, Ethics, and Methodological Individualism

Candace A. Vogler
pp. 625-627
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On the Power of the False

J.-A. Mbembé, Judith Inggs
pp. 629-641
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