..., driver’s licenses, and other identity cards—is a construction of fixed personhood for the purposes of modern organizational needs, ensuring that the member has remained essentially the same despite changes in personality, body, and behavior. With the spread of information technologies, however, there has...

... This chapter contains personal diary-style reflections, as well as advice for others from undergraduate writers whose work is collected in the volume. In brief pieces, various students recount the deep connections they were able to make in Togo, despite reasons for going that seem shallow in...

..., but, as this essay shows, even while reality conforms to what has been imagined, there are other surprises. • 26 • Missing Person My mother’s nails ­were painted red before I lit her funeral pyre on the banks of the Ganga. Ma was wearing bright...