Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations (page vii)
- Acknowledgments (page ix)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1. WRITING ORAL HISTORIES (page 11)
- 2. A CITY OF SHADOWY OUTLINES (page 38)
- 3. REMEMBERING THE SWORD AND LANCE (page 76)
- 4. DOCUMENTATION AND THE WAR OF WORDS (page 95)
- 5. BORDER CROSSINGS (page 148)
- 6. FROM HEARSAY TO REVELATION (page 213)
- 7. PUBLICATION AND THE REDISTRIBUTION OF POWER (page 262)
- 8. POPULAR GENEALOGICAL NATIONALISM (page 311)
- Appendix A: Transliterations of 'Abbadi and 'Adwani Poems (page 329)
- Appendix B: The Parliamentary Elections of 1989 (page 340)
- Bibliography (page 343)
- Index (page 353)