Helen A. Regis is assistant professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University. She is coauthor (with John Bartkowski) of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era and is currently writing a book on race, politics, and performance in New Orleans.

• 1 FULBENESS, HISTORY, AND CULTURAL PLURALISM, 2 PULAAKU AND EMBODIMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 3 ON CHEAP CLOTH, BAD SAUCE, AND THE FRAGILITY OF MARRIAGE, 4 FORGING ISLAMIC MANHOOD, 5 DANGEROUS AFFECTIONS, 6 INTIMATE OTHERS, 7 DOMAAYO AND THE WORLD BANK, CONCLUSION

Helen A. Regis is assistant professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University. She is coauthor (with John Bartkowski) of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era and is currently writing a book on race, politics, and performance in New Orleans.

• 1 FULBENESS, HISTORY, AND CULTURAL PLURALISM, 2 PULAAKU AND EMBODIMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 3 ON CHEAP CLOTH, BAD SAUCE, AND THE FRAGILITY OF MARRIAGE, 4 FORGING ISLAMIC MANHOOD, 5 DANGEROUS AFFECTIONS, 6 INTIMATE OTHERS, 7 DOMAAYO AND THE WORLD BANK, CONCLUSION

Helen A. Regis is assistant professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University. She is coauthor (with John Bartkowski) of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era and is currently writing a book on race, politics, and performance in New Orleans.

• 1 FULBENESS, HISTORY, AND CULTURAL PLURALISM, 2 PULAAKU AND EMBODIMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 3 ON CHEAP CLOTH, BAD SAUCE, AND THE FRAGILITY OF MARRIAGE, 4 FORGING ISLAMIC MANHOOD, 5 DANGEROUS AFFECTIONS, 6 INTIMATE OTHERS, 7 DOMAAYO AND THE WORLD BANK, CONCLUSION