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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. An Anthropology of International Relations
2. The Culture of Cultures
3. Coolness and Magic Bullets: Studying Chinese to Manage Risk and Constitute a Self
4. Conjuring Commensurability and Particularity: Reconfiguring Local and Global
5. Imagining the State: Constitutions and Conceptions of Government and Governance
6. Rethinking “Free” Speech: Debates over Academic Independence
7. The Sites and Struggles of Global Belonging
Notes
References
Index