Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Notes on the Text     xi
Introduction: The "Ordering of Violent Things": War and Displacement     1
Migration and Social Transformation before the War     45
Contending with Colonialism: Migration and Resistance     47
Other Struggles: Migration and the Transformation of Social Relations     66
The Social Conditioning of War     103
Imposing the New Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Disillusion     111
Society and the State: Mutual Misrecognition at the Gathering of War     137
Prosecuting Life by Other Means: The Social Logic of Violence in a Fragmented War     161
The Social Condition in War     187
Terrains of Displacement: War-time Mobility and Immobility     191
Tambem Aqui Fazemos Amor: Living in War     216
War as a Socially Transformative Condition     251
Postconflict Displacements: The Social Problematics of Refugee Return     259
Transnational Contentions: The Moral Economy of Postconflict Migration     281
Where to Be an Ancestor? The Struggle for the Postconflict Social Imagination     304
Notes     331
References     361
Index     393