1. Introduction
   Violence and anthropology • Meanings of violence • Reflections on fieldwork and method
2. Belonging to the palas valley
   Into the valley • Localised Islam • Egalitarianism and equality • Kohistani dwellings • Contact zones • Encountering development • The emerald forests • Historical landscapes
3. The textured landscape
   Periodic redistribution: the wesh • The fragmented Shin polity, c. 1500–1700 • Embracing Islam and instituting the wesh, c.1700–1850 • Decline and dissolution of the wesh, c. 1850–1890• Indigenous land settlement, c. 1880–1895 • The process of land division • From fields to forest • The Palas wesh
4. Land of contention
   Maize cultivation • Transhumance • Land-use strategies • Zonation and sociality • Fallow land and enmity • Enforcement of the ban on cultivation • From ban to attack • Social hostility • Fields of fury • Low-yield agriculture
5. Being, longing and belonging
   Being • Longing • Being in love • The killing of Gulbadan • Defection and exile • Belonging and exclusion
6. Condemned and confined
   Preamble • Inheriting the pare • The killing of Hilal • Abduction and compensation • The troublesome baando • Confinement and mediation • Baram’s confinement • Epilogue • Narrative and subjectivity
7. Magic and honour
   Love magic • Magic and sorcery • Honour and violence • Jalil’s story • Magic and belonging
8. Contesting the boundaries
   Forest ecology • The inverted forest • From use value to exchange value • Disputing over grass • ‘The boundaries are written in our hearts’ • Entitlement disputes • Tenurial complexity
9. Brooding over the big trees
   Knowing and owning the forest • Early timber logging • Commercial forestry • Dividing the big trees • Logging in Kuz Palas • Logging and disputes • Incongruent boundaries • Social boundaries • Claiming their share • Timber ban • Rich forests, poor people
10. Thresholds and transitions
    Boundaries of belonging • Situating violence • Revenge and
    retribution • Moral dilemmas • Lethal conflict • The politics of belonging

-  Professor Charles Lindholm, Boston University

-  Professor Emeritus Fredrik Barth, Boston University and University of Oslo