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Prologue : bringing theory to the field. -- Introduction : from Manchester to Berkeley by way of Chicago. -- The extended case method : race and class in postcolonial Africa. -- The ethnographic revisit : capitalism in transition and other histories. -- Two methods in search of revolution : Trotsky versus Skocpol. -- Multicase ethnography : tracking the demise of state socialism. -- Conclusion : the ethnography of great transformations. -- Epilogue : on public ethnography.