Erica Caple James is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Contents List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Democracy, Insecurity, and the Commodification of Suffering 1. The Terror Apparatus 2. The Aid Apparatus and the Politics of Victimization 3. Routines of Rupture and Spaces of (In)Security 4. Double Binds in Audit Cultures 5. Bureaucraft, Accusations, and the Social Life of Aid 6. Sovereign Rule, Ensekirite, and Death 7. The Tyranny of the Gift Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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