Introduction Part I. Other Modernities? Resistance, Continuities, and Transformations 1. From Religion to Magic 2. Myth, History, and Political Identity 3. Will the Real Hawaiian Please Stand? Anthropologists and Natives in the Global Struggle for Identity 4. Global Complexity and the Simplicity of Everyday Life 5. State Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power, and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the Congo Part II. Other Modernities? Globalization, the State, and Violence 6. The Struggle against Evil 7. The Implosion of Modernity: A New Tribalism Part III. Globalization as Representation and Reality 8. The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush 9. Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Weaving together a provocative and innovative approach to the global process of social reproduction, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman move beyond glib and fashionable globalization-speak and identity-talk. In a series of broad-ranging essays, they challenge us to rethink the logic of modernity and issues of political economy, class, cultural authenticity, and representation.