Publisher's Synopsis
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Cultural Anthropology, 1992-1996," FRED MYERS; "Some Reflections on Editing with Contrarian Sensibilities," DANIEL A. SEGAL; "Life Above Earth: An Introduction," CYMENE HOWE; "Condition-Suspension, "TIMOTHY CHOY and JERRY ZEE; "Liberating Sick Birds: Poststructuralist Perspectives on the Biopolitics of Avian Influenza," FREDERIC KECK; "Better Weather? The Cultivation of the Sky," MIKE HULME; "Relational Space: An Earthly Installation," DEBBORA BATTAGLIA, DAVID VALENTINE, and VALERIE OLSON; "Occupation Bedbugs: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism," E. SUMMERSON CARR; "Anticipatory States: Tsunami, War, and Insecurity in Sri Lanka," VIVIAN Y. CHOI; "The Currency of Failure: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires," SARAH MUIR; "The Tragic Denouement of English Sociality," DANIEL MILLER"