The Intestines of the State

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Acknowledgments

1. Centuries of Youth: Remembering, Incorporation, and the Reclamation of History
2. Kings, Slaves, and Floating Populations: Discourses of Centrality and Marginality in the Precolonial Era
3. Masks of Terror and the Subjection of Cadets
4. Aurora colonialis: German Imperialism and the Modernity of Slavery
5. Embodied Histories: Royal Investiture, Masking, and Remembering
6. From Slaves to Free Boys: Cadets’ Resistance to Gerontocratic, Colonial, and Postcolonial Authority
7. The Death of Tears: Mortuary Rites and the Indeterminacy of Dance
8. Dancing Death: Memorial Celebrations, the Politics of Ritual Laughter, and the Embodied Memories of Youth
9. Histories of the Present, Histories of the Future

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