This chapter examines debate training as the most prominent liberal political education initiative in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Spearheaded by young, university-educated Tunisians and supported by international donors, debate training seeks to foster a culture of public deliberation on national issues. While informed by transnational liberal models, the initiative also draws on Tunisia’s own political traditions, which were rooted in 19th century reformist thought and evolved throughout both the nationalist and neoliberal periods. This convergence of national and international liberal influences forms the foundation for constructing norms of democratic civility, which simultaneously demarcate historical and contemporary revolutionary incivility. However, the efforts of civic trainers often meet resistance, exposing deep societal fault lines – particularly along class, regional, and religious divisions. The interaction between civic trainers and participants illuminates how different segments of Tunisian society negotiate, reinterpret, or contest the ideals of deliberative democracy and the vision of the public sphere it entails.

One of the classical problems in mathematics is to study rational or integral solutions to a system of diophantine equations, that is, a system of polynomial equations with rational or integral coefficients.

This concluding chapter considers how we as editors approach the anthropology of death from varied positions and histories of engagement. We reflect on how individually we have studied – and, in Ruth Toulson’s case, practiced – alongside deathcare workers, from morticians and funeral home directors to pathologists and forensic scientists; how we have examined traces of death and dying through archives and testimonial evidence; and how we have learned of the rites of the dead from surviving families and mourners, the needs of the living, and the social worlds that bind the two together. Our aim is not to wrap up the preceding chapters with any neat bow, but to reflect on what this field has meant to us individually as scholars and as people who have experienced the death of loved ones and thought deeply about the meaning of those losses. Finally, we reinforce one of the volume’s key arguments – that the anthropological study of death is one of studying processes and contexts of being with the dead. Taken together, this Handbook’s compilation of chapters underscore why death matters in new and urgent ways beyond concerns of just human life.

This work examines how organized crime is emergent from the material conditions of life and death. Focusing on Brazil, I develop the idea of “muted martyrdom” to show how longstanding and banal efforts to maintain highly unequal conditions of life and death, both actively through violent policing and passively through the non-provision of life-giving infrastructures, are productive of novel techniques of “life insurance” for populations that, under the global and social relations of capitalism, must not be subject to techniques of life-saving. By returning to the political economy of life and death, which is to say how both life and death are commodified in and via social relations, I push toward a broader understanding of insurable and un-insurable life, which matters because it tells us that death and its material conditions are a powerful force and epistemological means for reading capitalism’s harms and the contestation it instills.

Chapter 2 presents a theory of globalized state-led development that helps us understand the conditions under which this model is adopted and implemented. It begins with the developmentalist dilemma faced by states: how can they help national firms benefit from global markets while managing the domestic political tensions these interventions provoke? This tension has important points of comparison with the challenges faced by the East Asian developmental states, yet has become more acute. Globalization and democracy have deepened the developmentalist dilemma by increasing the relevance of international production and innovation networks, constraining policy space, and heightening political contestation. A theory of globalized state-led development explains the conditions under which governments navigate these competing pressures by supporting national firms at home and abroad.

Chapter 7 examines how relational banking operates through in-depth case studies of the ties between the BNDES and two Brazilian MNCs: JBS (an agribusiness firm) and TOTVS (an information technology firm). This case selection explores the comparative advantage-conforming and defying components of Brazil’s globalized state-led development. Through this granular empirical approach, the reader can observe the state’s interventions at the firm-level and isolate the precise levers and sequence through which the state influences firm behavior. The chapter presents both attitudinal (firm managers recognize the relevance of the state) and behavioral (support is temporally and sequentially connected to changes in the firm’s foreign investment portfolio) evidence that state financing shapes the internationalization trajectory of firms and helps states achieve their industrial policy goals.

The Epilogue offers a reflective and ethnographic account of the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict, viewed from the perspective of the present. Departing from the source-driven structure of the preceding chapters, it draws on the author’s personal experience during a visit to the archipelago in December 2017. The chapter advances a central paradox: while the war was deeply traumatic, it also marked a turning point that enabled the Islands’ profound economic and political transformation. In the post-war period, London ceased seeking Argentine approval for decisions concerning the Islands, a shift that expanded greater local autonomy and opened the path to prosperity. Tracing the policies and changes that followed, the epilogue examines the Islands’ new demographic profile and evolving social structure, drawing extensively on recent census data. It revisits the book’s core themes from today’s vantage point especially islander identity and relations with Argentina and concludes by suggesting that the postwar reality would have been unimaginable to the British, Argentine, and Falkland Islanders whose worlds the book has explored.

So far we have been discussing Manin’s conjecture over number fields. One can also develop Manin’s conjecture over global function fields, that is, the function field Fq of a smooth geometrically integral projective curve B defined over a finite field Fq.