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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Part One Muli: An Indian Untouchable -- 1 Introducing Muli -- 2 Collecting Muli's Life History -- 3 The Setting of Muli's Life History -- Part Two Youth and Hopes -- 4 Muli's Childhood, 1932-44 -- 5 Bauris "Lift Up Their Faces," 1947-48 -- 6 A Guru for the Bauris, 1948 -- 7 Koki's Abortion, 1948 -- 8 "I Like You Sixteen Annas' Worth," 1948 -- 9 Grandmother Dungi's Death, 1948 -- 10 Koki's Marriage, 1948-49 -- 11 Doctor Babu, 1949 -- 12 Dash Babu's "Hot Disease," 1949 -- Part Three The Reluctant Householder -- 13 Muli's Inauspicious Marriage, 1950-52 -- 14 Traveling with Lakhi the Prostitute, 1953 -- 15 Kia Possessed, 1953-56 -- 16 Grandfather Dharma, 1956-57 -- 17 The White Bullocks, 1957 -- 18 Starvation and Family Quarrels, 1957-58 -- 19 Brother Anadi, 1959-60 -- 20 Kia's Illness, 1960 -- 21 Marrying and Divorcing a Tree Trunk, 1961 -- Part Four Bad Times -- 22 A Successful Business Venture, 1962 -- 23 Muli's Other Wife, 1962 -- 24 Living with Two Wives, 1962-63 -- 25 "We Sit Under People's Feet," 1965-69 -- 26 Transvestites and Prostitutes, 1969-72 -- 27 Kia's Attempted Suicide, 1971-72 -- 28 "The Taker of Discarded Rinds," 1970-71 -- 29 Harvest Tragedy, 1971-72 -- Part Five Interpretations -- 30 Analysis of Muli's Life History -- 31 Conclusions -- Appendix A: Bauri Rituals -- Appendix B: Bauri Marriage Rites -- Bibliography -- Glossary-Index

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Victims of Politics -- 2. A Guided Tour of Misery -- 3. Vicissitudes of Fate -- 4. The Unbearable Life -- 5. Screening and Its Critics -- 6. Repatriation -- 7. Resettlement -- 8. Interventions -- 9. Continuing Concerns -- Abbreviations Used in This Book -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives -- Part One. Law against Culture -- Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror -- Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia -- Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification -- Part Two. Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State -- Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration -- The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila -- Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism among Palestinian Women in Israel -- ''Best Interests'' and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors -- Part Three. Resistance and Remembrance -- Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe -- ''Honest Bandits'' and ''Warped People'': Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay -- Trance against the State -- Part Four. Conclusion -- The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure -- Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions -- Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index