Contents -- Illustrations -- The World as We Found It -- Writing the World -- Why We Sing (Por que cantamos) -- The Ladies Have Feelings, So . . . Shall We Leave It to the Experts? -- Systems -- Ghost of a Full-Contact Commute -- We Better Collect the Birds' Nests before the Outsiders Get Here -- The Aliens in the Garden -- Furbi -- Civilizations -- The Engagement -- Roadblocks and Bridges -- Monika, before Reunification -- El Halloween and the Día de Muerto -- Is This What Democracy Looks Like? -- Global Reorganization: Conference Proceedings, Santo Domingo, 1991 -- Fetishes and Rarities -- Honey, Sugar, and Rose -- In the Village -- The Snow in Ghana -- Two Women, Two Worlds -- At Eden's Edge -- Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility -- Waltzing Matilda -- Black Tea -- An Alternative to Progress -- The Globalization of Evil: Words from Baghdad and Belgrade -- You Tell Us What to Do -- Contributors -- Sources.