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Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes -- Part 1 Ethnography and the Archive -- Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History -- Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power -- 2 Colonial Anxieties -- New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth- Century Peru -- The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity -- Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State -- 3 Marginal Contexts -- Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context -- Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War -- 4 Archaeologies of the Fantastic -- Fantastic Community -- Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony -- Contributors -- Index