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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Crime, Capital, and the Metaphysics of Disorder: An Overview in Three Movements -- Chapter 1.1. Crime, Policing, and the Making of Modernity: The State, Sovereignty, and the Il/legal -- Chapter 1.2. The Order of Things to Come: Crime-and-Policing in the Present Continuous -- Chapter 1.3. Forensic Fantasy and the Political Economy of Representation: Scenes from the Brave Noir World -- Part Two. Law-Making, Law-Breaking, and Law-Enforcement: Five Uneasy Pieces -- Chapter 2.1. Divine Detection: Policing at the Edge -- Chapter 2.2. Imposture, Law, and the Policing of Personhood: The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive -- Chapter 2.3. Figuring Crime: Quantifacts, Mythostats, and the Production of the Un/real -- Chapter 2.4. Outsourcing Justice, Privatizing Protection: Practices of Popular Sovereignty -- Chapter 2.5. Sharp Endings: A Pointed Afterimage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture