Front -- Contents -- Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life -- Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice -- Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again) -- Disembodied Conjugality -- Word, Image, and Movement: Translating Pain -- Conceptual Vita -- The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair, and Hope in a Courtroom -- Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand -- and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984 -- Sexual Violence, Law, and Qualities of Affi liation -- On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life -- "Listening to Voices": Immigrants, Settlers, and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State -- Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs -- In the Event of an Anthropological Thought -- The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo -- The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming -- Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy -- Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters -- The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal -- Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript -- Between Words and Lives. A Thought on the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering: An Interview with Veena Das.