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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- One / Waiting for Tea -- Two / The Writing on the Walls: Ma(r)king the Place of Youth -- Three / Snapshots: Bringing (Invisible) Women into View -- Four / Hip-Hop, Truth, and Islam -- Five / Keeping Watch: Bodywork, Street Ethics, and Masculinity -- Six / Dress and the Time of Youth -- Seven / Zigzag Politics: Tea, Ballots, and Agency -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The contributors to this volume-who draw from a variety of disciplines-show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a controversy emerged in the U.S. public sphere over the use of the word refugee to characterize the displaced residents of New Orleans. In this article, I explore the significance of the concept of "the refugee" for U.S. citizens, and I discuss what the failure to find an appropriate term to describe stranded New Orleanians reveals about the experience of poverty. I argue that the conceptual void uncovered by the crisis reflects the larger social void in which poor New Orleanians have long been confined and I examine the role of public discourse in defining and helping justify the inequalities uncovered by Katrina.

The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire. René Devisch and Claude Brodeur. Langhorne, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. 268 pp.