Issue 7

Table of contents

1. Maurice Bloch:

   An extraordinary fact

2. Dan Sperber:

   Reasons to reason

3. James Laidlaw & Paolo Heywood:

   One more turn and you’re there

4. Maxim Bolt:

   The loan economy

   • The nature of entrustment: intimacy, exchange and the sacred in Africa By Parker Shipton

5. Gisa Weszkalnys:

   Oil, soil, toil and trouble

   • Resources for reform: oil and neoliberalism in Argentina By Elana Shever

6. Mathijs Pelkmans:

   The affect effect

   • Ordinary affects By Kathleen Stewart
   • The make-believe space: affective geography in a post-war polity By Yael Navaro-Yashin

7. Andrew Apter:

   Slavery, politics, fetishism

   • The Fante and the transatlantic slave trade By Rebecca Shumway

8. J. Andrew Bush:

   Timely questions

   • Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern Egypt By Hussein Ali Agrama

Feature article

1. Charles Stafford:

   What is going to happen next?