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James Ferguson

James Ferguson is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt and The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . He is a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology , also published by Duke University Press, and of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science .