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Contents:

Editor's Introduction

    1. R Editor's Introduction
      1. Elizabeth Mertz

OUTSIDE INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW

    1. R "I vote, therefore I am:" Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi
      1. Marcy Brink-Danan
    2. R Flexibility versus Rigidity in the Practice of Islamic Family Law
      1. Nahda Shehada

AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE

    1. R States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela
      1. Ben Penglase
    2. R Territorial Democracy: Caste, Dominance and Electoral Practice in Postcolonial India
      1. Jeffrey Witsoe

2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER

    1. R Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti
      1. Mark Schuller

DIRECTIONS

    1. R INTERVIEW: The "New Anthropology of Crime"
      1. Ben Penglase
        Stephanie C. Kane
        Philip Parnell

BOOK REVIEWS

    1. R Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis by William Haltom and Michael McCann
      1. A. Scott Catey
    2. R El Estado y los indígenas en tiempos del PAN: neoindigenismo, legalidad e identidad edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández, Sarela Paz, and María Teresa Sierra
      1. Lynn Stephen
    3. R Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar
      1. Christine Hegel-Cantarella
    4. R The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology, and Postcoloniality by Vassos Argyrou
      1. Kristina Tiedje
    5. R Le Jugement en Action – Ethnomėthodologie du Droit, de la Morale et de la Justice en Egypte by Baudoin Dupret
      1. Marinos Diamantides
    6. R The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in post-1980 Turkey by Sam Kaplan
      1. Véronique Benei
    7. R The Politics of Citizenship of Mexican Migrants by Alejandra Castañeda
      1. Leslie Lopez
    8. R Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab
      1. Clare Talwalker

REVIEW ESSAY Explaining IT

    1. R Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang
      Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh
      1. Christopher Kelty