Call for Contributions
Public Culture 17(1): ix-x (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-ix [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Editor's Note
Public Culture 17(1): vii-viii (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-vii [PDF]  

Articles

David Bennett

Getting the Id to Go Shopping: Psychoanalysis, Advertising, Barbie Dolls, and the Invention of the Consumer Unconscious
Public Culture 17(1): 1-26 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-1 [PDF]  

Kaylin Goldstein

Secular Sublime: Edward Said at the Israel Museum
Public Culture 17(1): 27-54 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-27 [PDF] [References]  

Danny Hoffman

The Brookfields Hotel (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
Public Culture 17(1): 55-74 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-55 [PDF]  

Charles L. Briggs

Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois
Public Culture 17(1): 75-100 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-75 [PDF] [References]  

Neville Hoad

Thabo Mbeki's AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic
Public Culture 17(1): 101-128 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-101 [PDF]  

Simon Leung and Marita Sturken

Displaced Bodies in Residual Spaces
Public Culture 17(1): 129-152 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-129 [PDF]  

Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble

Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar
Public Culture 17(1): 153-180 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-153 [PDF] [References]  

Exchange

Michael Watts

Baudelaire over Berea, Simmel over Sandton?
Public Culture 17(1): 181-192 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-181 [PDF] [References]  

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe

A Blasé Attitude: A Response to Michael Watts
Public Culture 17(1): 193-202 (2005); DOI:10.1215/08992363-17-1-193 [PDF]  

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