Includes bibliographical references and index.

Striking Samburu and a mad cow : adventures in Anthropollywood / Kel ly Askew -- Egyptian cinema on stage and off / Walter Armbrust -- Wedde d to the republic : public intellectuals and intimacy oriented publics in Turkey / Esra èOzyèurek -- Intimacy and hegemony in the new Europe : the politics of culture at Seville's Universal Exposition / Richard Ma ddox -- Sexual secrets : Candomblâe, Brazil, and the multiple intimacie s of the African diaspora / J. Lorand Matory -- "X marks the future of Brazil" : protestant ethics and bedeviling mixtures in a Brazilian cult ural heritage center / John F. Collins -- Intimacy and corruption in Th ailand's age of transparency / Rosalind Morris -- Monolithic intentiona lity, belonging, and the production of state paranoia : a view through Stasi onto the late GDR / Andreas Glaeser -- In the double remoteness o f Arab Detroit : reflections on ethnography, culture work, and the inti mate disciplines of Americanization / Andrew Shryock.