Practices of Truth -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Learning the truth -- Remarks on Foucault and the school institution -- Frame and context -- The production of context -- Positioning, moves and activities -- Body, gesture, rhythm, and memorization -- Learning and disciplining in action -- Chapter 2. The context of truth practices -- Background knowledge, context and reasonable adequacy requirement -- Institutional and parliamentary context and background knowledge -- Context as constraint -- Orienting to audiences -- Looking for political and legislative relevance -- Procedural rules as constraints and resources -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Telling the truth -- The nature of Islamic law -- Searching for law in Islam -- Rephrasing the question -- Re-specifying the sociological study of Islamic law -- Law on the books and law in action -- The 'missing what' of law-and-society and legal-statistical research on law -- Hyper-explanation vs. description of situated activities -- The praxiological study of Islamic law: Egyptian cases -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. The truth about oneself -- Al-Jazeera: Testimonial voices -- Al-Manar: Fiction and news reporting in support of a militant text -- Al-Hurra: The model of the advertising clip -- Choosing channels, identifying spots: The work of data collection -- Anthropology of televised reading: Words and images for an endogenous categorization -- Natural reading and instructed reading: When the channels represent themselves on the web -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Speaking the truth -- The practical grammar of contrasted video-clips about terror -- Shots -- Sequences -- Narratives -- Sounds and music -- The categorical organization of narratives -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6. Narratives of truth.

The general script -- Embedded events -- Documentary films as truth-producing engines -- Conclusion. Truth -- Bibliography -- Index.