Volume 63, #4 // October 2021

Editorial Foreword

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Articles in the Issue

Sovereign Aesthetics

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COURTNEY BENDER 
Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse

YANIV FELLER
Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory

War and Labor during and after Slavery

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GERVASE PHILLIPS AND LAURA SANDY
Slavery and the “American Way of War” 1607–1861

JOHN HIGGINSON
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Some Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and the Roots of Collective Violence during the “Reconstruction” Periods in the American South and South Africa

State-Corporation Alliances

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VERONIKA KUSUMARYATI
Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua

MARINA WELKER
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony

On Archival Lacunae and Genealogical Gaps

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ZEHRA HASHMI
Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan 

DANNA AGMON
Historical Gaps and Non-Existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India