Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author ofThe Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and CarnalityandThe Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism, both also published by Duke University Press, as well asLaborrsquo;s Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action.