1. State and its margins : comparative ethnographies / Veena Das and Deborah Poole -- 2. Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state / Deborah Poole -- 3. Checkpoint : anthropology, identity, and the state / Pradeep Jeganathan -- 4. Deterritorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state / Mariane C. Ferme -- 5. Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson -- 6. AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa / Adam Ashforth -- 7. Operability : surgery at the margin of the state / Lawrence Cohen -- 8. Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman -- 9. The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility / Veena Das -- 10. Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins / Victoria Sanford.

11. Where are the margins of the state? / Talal Asad.