Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon

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Janet Roitman is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her recent publications include“New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin,” inIntervention and Transnationalism in Africa, edited by Thomas Callahgy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham (2001), and “The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin,” inGlobal Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (forthcoming).