Comparative Studies in Society and History is a quarterly journal that serves as a forum for research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies. Now in its fifty-fourth year, CSSH sets up a working alliance among specialists in all branches of the social sciences and humanities.

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Volume 54 Number 2 April 2012

Editorial Foreword

Bureaucratic Anxieties

Bhavani Raman   The Duplicity of Paper: Counterfeit, Discretion, and Bureaucratic Authority in Early Colonial Madras

Keith Shear   Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

Peter Gibbon and Lasse Folke Henriksen   A Standard Fit for Neoliberalism

Parts and Partitions

Alexandra Kowalski   The Nation Rescaled: Theorizing the Decentralization of Memory in Contemporary France

Rebecca Bryant   Partitions of Memory: Wounds and Witnessing in Cyprus

Intervening Spirits

Angie Heo   The Virgin Made Visible: Intercessory Images of Church Territory in Egypt

Amira Mittermaier   Invisible Armies: Reflections on Egyptian Dreams of War

Saba Mahmood   Religious Freedom, the Minority Question, and Geopolitics in the Middle East

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