Table of contents : Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. Introduction: “Empty Buildings” 2. “The Nest of the Crazy”: The Ethnographic Setting 3. “We Drank the Jabha with Our Mothers’ Milk”: Joining Factions 4. “We Are the Factions”: Political Faction Membership 5. “Factions Are Like Shops”: Aid, Discipline, and the Structural Effect 6. “Factions Are Forced Husbands”: Physical Representations, Factionalism, and Party Ideology 7. Conclusion: “The Guys Were Doing Something Great, the Factions Destroyed It” Notes Bibliography Index