CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SOVEREIGNTY, THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF SECURITY, AND GENDER: LOOKING NORTH AND SOUTH FROM THE US- MEXICO BORDER -- 3 CHIEFS AND BUREAUCRATS IN THE MAKING OF EMPIRE: A DRAMA FROM THE TRANSKEI, SOUTH AFRICA, OCTOBER 1880 -- 4 STATE FORMATION THROUGH DEVELOPMENT IN POST- APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- 5 NEGOTIATED DICTATORSHIP: THE BUILDING OF THE TRUJILLO STATE IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- 6 THE MATERIALITY OF STATE-EFFECTS: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A ROAD IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES -- 7 CONTRADICTORY NOTIONS OF THE STATE: RETURNED REFUGEES IN GUATEMALA -- 8 COUNTING ON STATE SUBJECTS: STATE FORMATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN TWENTIETH- CENTURY MEXICO -- 9 ' A SPEECH THAT THE ENTIRE MINISTRY MAY STAND FOR': ON GENERATING STATE VOICE -- 10 'BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY': LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION IN NORWAY -- 11 THE STATE OF THE STATE IN EUROPE, OR, ' WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN UNION THAT ANTHROPOLOGISTS SHOULD BE MINDFUL OF IT'? -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.