Prologue: opening frames, orientations
Framing perspectives
Reluctant landscapes
Writing Senegambian political pasts
Visions of colonial subjects: imagining and constructing the seereer
Landscape
What's in a name? : notes on the making of Seereer identity
"The very model of egalitarian and anarchic peasantry": Seereer cultural landscapes and the ethnographic imagination
Atlantic passages: world history and the ambiguity of materiality
Ambiguous kingdoms: states, subjects, and spatialities of power
Object trajectories: Atlantic commerce and genealogies of material practice
Colonial indeterminacies: entangled landscapes, overlapping sovereignties
Hesitant sovereignties: logics, logistics, and aesthetics of French rule
The politics of absence: peasant lifeworlds and colonial government
Conclusion: archaeological pasts, postcolonial presents, traditional futures.