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Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04

Comparative Studies in Society and History ( CSSH ) is an international forum for new research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and the contemporary world. CSSH sets up a working alliance among specialists in all branches of the social sciences and humanities as a way of bringing together multidisciplinary research, cultural studies, and theory, especially in anthropology, history, political science, and sociology. Review articles and discussion bring readers in touch with current findings and issues

Editorial Foreword

Editorial

Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 827-830

Abstract

Lowering the Sultan's Flag: Sovereignty and Decolonization in Coastal Kenya

Research Articles
James R. Brennan,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 831-861

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In Search of Kilometer Zero: Digital Archives, Technological Revisionism, and the Sino-Vietnamese Border

Research Articles
Ken Maclean,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 862-894

Abstract

A Taste for Law: Rule-Making in Kabylia (Algeria)

Research Articles
Judith Scheele,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 895-919

Abstract

Putting the History Back into Ethnicity: Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Brokerage in the Construction of Mandinka/Jola and Ewe/Agotime Identities in West Africa, c. 1650–1930

Research Articles
Paul Nugent,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 920-948

Abstract

The Illusion of Isolation: The Gullah/Geechees and the Political Economy of African Culture in the Americas

Research Articles
J. Lorand Matory,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 949-980

Abstract

The Break-Up of the Poor Laws— German Style: Progressivism and the Origins of the Welfare State, 1900–1918

Research Articles
Larry Frohman,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 981-1009

Abstract

Food and Welfare in India, c. 1900–1950

Research Articles
Sunil S. Amrith,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1010-1035

Abstract

Authentication and Affect: Why the Turks Don't Like Enchanted Counterpublics, A Review Essay

Review Articles
Gregory Starrett,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1036-1046

Abstract

Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Review Articles
Roy Ellen,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1047-1048

Abstract

Aihwa Ong, Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty . Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Review Articles
Federico Helfgott,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1048-1049

Abstract

Myron Echenberg, Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901 . New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Review Articles
Julia Rodriguez,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1049-1051

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Joanne Rappaport, Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia . Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Review Articles
Esteban Rozo,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1051-1052

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Flagg Miller, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen . Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 38. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, xxiv, 525 pp.

Review Articles
Daniel Martin Varisco,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1052-1054

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Tom D. Dillehay, Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Review Articles
Gustavo Verdesio,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1054-1055

Abstract

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico . Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Review Articles
Stacie G. Widdifield,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 50 Issue 04 , pp 1056-1057

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