Chapter 1 From Confusion to Common Sense: Using Political Ethnography to Understand Social Mobilization in the Brazilian Northeast

Chapter 2 Losing Face in Philippine Labor Confrontations: How Shame May Inhibit Worker Activism

Chapter 3 Radical Outcasts Versus Three Kinds of Police: Constructing Limits in Japanese Anti-Emperor Protests

Chapter 4 Honor and Morality in Contemporary Rural India

Chapter 5 Routing Conflict: Organized Violence and Clientelism in Rio de Janeiro

Chapter 7 Are National Politics Local? Social Movement Responses to the 2004 US Presidential Election

Chapter 8 Professional Performances on a Well-Constructed Stage: The Case of an Institutionalized Advocacy Organization

Chapter 9 Field Research During War: Ethical Dilemmas

Chapter 10 Politics as a Vocation: Notes Toward a Sensualist Understanding of Political Engagement

Chapter 11 Afterword: Political Ethnography as Art and Science