Andrea Behrendsis an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and former Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

List of Figures

PART I: GENERALITIES

Chapter 1. The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of Oil
Stephen Reyna and Andrea Behrends

Chapter 2. Oiling the Race to the Bottom
Jonathan Friedman

PART II: AFRICA

Chapter 3. Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-Insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Michael Watts

Chapter 4. Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet - The Darfur-Chad border
Andrea Behrends

Chapter 5. Elfs and Witches: Oil Cleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville
Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Chapter 6. Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters:Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state
Stephen P. Reyna

PART III: LATIN AMERICA

Chapter 7. The Persistent Imaginary of 'the People's Oil': Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela
John Gledhill

Chapter 8."Now That the Petroleum is Ours:" Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela
Naomi Schiller

Chapter 9. Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia
Bret Gustafson

PART IV. POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIA

Chapter 10. Oil Without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia
Florian Stammler

Chapter 11. 'Against... Domination': Oil and War in Chechnya
Galina Khizrieva and Stephen P. Reyna

Afterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict
Günther Schlee

Notes on Contributors