Angelique Haugerud is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. Her books include (as author) The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 1995); (as co-editor) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism(Blackwell, 2005); and (as co-editor) Globalization and Commodities: Anthropological Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)