The Benedict Anderson Vanitas above reflects his diverse fields of expertise. The background map of the Pacific Ocean and its coasts is by Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-1788), downloaded from the David Rumsey Collection. Resting on a detail of a Javanese batik hip-wrapper, c. 1900-1910, from the Inger McCabe Elliot Collection at LACMA, is an edition of the Tagalog novel Noli me tángere by Jose Rizal, published in Valencia, Spain (SAL I). Tucked under it is a paper cut-out of Rizal's terracotta sculpture, Science Over Death, 1894. The electronic book displays a sample of Pheng Cheah's Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson, instantly downloaded from Amazon...