Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives 1
4. Part One. Law against Culture
5. Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror 37
6. Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia 61
7. Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification 85
8. Part Two. Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State
9. Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration 113
10. The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila 146
11. Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism among Palestinian Women in Israel 178
12. ‘‘Best Interests’’ and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors 210
13. Part Three. Resistance and Remembrance
14. Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe 249
15. ‘‘Honest Bandits’’ and ‘‘Warped People’’: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay 276
16. Trance against the State 316
17. Part Four. Conclusion
18. The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure 355
19. Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions 379
20. Contributors 393
21. Works Cited 395
22. Index 427