Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This is James^^^Ferguson. James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and the coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press.