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Volume 55 Number 2 April 2013

Editorial Foreword

Jurisdictional Flow

ERIC LEWIS BEVERLEY   Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire

JOYA CHATTERJI   Dispositions and Destinations: Refugee Agency and “Mobility Capital” in the Bengal Diaspora, 1947–2007

Borderlanders

ZIAD FAHMY   Jurisdictional Borderlands: Extraterritoriality and “Legal Chameleons” in Precolonial Alexandria, 1840–1870

MARC DAVID BAER   Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Germany and the Shoah

Identity Inside Out

ANDREW APTER  Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within

RUBEN GOWRICHARN   Ethnogenesis: The Case of British Indians in the Caribbean

Colonial Localisms

NEIL MAcMASTER   The Roots of Insurrection: The Role of the Algerian Village Assembly (Djemâa) in Peasant Resistance, 1863–1962

JUSTIN WILLIS and GEORGE GONA   Tradition, Tribe, and State in Kenya: The Mijikenda Union, 1945–1980

Reverse Historiography

MATT HODGES   Illuminating Vestige: Amateur Archaeology and the Emergence of Historical Consciousness in Rural France

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