PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

© American Anthropological Association

Cover image for Vol. 32 Issue 1

May 2009

Volume 32, Issue 1

Pages 1–160

  1. Editor's Introduction

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. Editor's Introduction (pages 1–4)

      Elizabeth Mertz

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01020.x

  2. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. “I vote, therefore I am:” Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi (pages 5–27)

      Marcy Brink-Danan

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01021.x

    2. Flexibility versus Rigidity in the Practice of Islamic Family Law (pages 28–46)

      Nahda Shehada

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01022.x

  3. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela (pages 47–63)

      Ben Penglase

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01023.x

    2. Territorial Democracy: Caste, Dominance and Electoral Practice in Postcolonial India (pages 64–83)

      Jeffrey Witsoe

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01024.x

  4. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti (pages 84–104)

      Mark Schuller

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01025.x

  5. DIRECTIONS

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. INTERVIEW: The “New Anthropology of Crime” (pages 105–123)

      Ben Penglase, Stephanie C. Kane and Philip Parnell

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01026.x

  6. BOOK REVIEWS

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis by William Haltom and Michael McCann (pages 124–126)

      A. Scott Catey

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_1.x

    2. El Estado y los indígenas en tiempos del PAN: neoindigenismo, legalidad e identidad edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández, Sarela Paz, and María Teresa Sierra (pages 127–132)

      Lynn Stephen

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_2.x

    3. Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar (pages 132–135)

      Christine Hegel-Cantarella

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_3.x

    4. The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology, and Postcoloniality by Vassos Argyrou (pages 135–137)

      Kristina Tiedje

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_4.x

    5. Le Jugement en Action – Ethnomėthodologie du Droit, de la Morale et de la Justice en Egypte by Baudoin Dupret (pages 137–144)

      Marinos Diamantides

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_5.x

    6. The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in post-1980 Turkey by Sam Kaplan (pages 144–149)

      Véronique Benei

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_6.x

    7. The Politics of Citizenship of Mexican Migrants by Alejandra Castañeda (pages 149–151)

      Leslie Lopez

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_7.x

    8. Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab (pages 152–155)

      Clare Talwalker

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01027_8.x

  7. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT

    1. Top of page
    2. Editor's Introduction
    3. OUTSIDE/INSIDE: JEWISH POLITICS AND ISLAMIC LAW
    4. AUTHORITY, CRIME, AND THE STATE
    5. 2007 APLA STUDENT PAPER PRIZE WINNER
    6. DIRECTIONS
    7. BOOK REVIEWS
    8. REVIEW ESSAY – Explaining IT
    1. Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh (pages 156–160)

      Christopher Kelty

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01035.x

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