Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure

Nationalism and Transnationalism.

Cirassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus. (Seteney Shami).

Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945. (Prasenjit Duara).

The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. (Mamadou Diouf).

Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States. (Jacqueline Bhabha).

Commodities and Fantasies.

Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks.

Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana. (Birgit Meyer).

Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997). (Filip De Boeck).

Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia. (Peter Geschiere).

Theoretical Reflections.

Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory. John D. Kelly.

Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies. (Wim van Binsbergen).

Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization. (Arjun Appadurai).

Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space. (Ulf Hannerz).

Notes on Contributors.

Index