James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of "The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho" (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of "Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science" (California, 1997) and "Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology" (1997).