From cultural traits to global processes: methods for a critical comparative ethnography -- Geography of desire: social space, sexual projects, and the organization of extramarital sex in rural Mexico / Jennifer S. Hirsch -- Gender inequality, infidelity, and the social risks of modern marriage in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Eaten ones fill and all stirred up: Doi Moi and the re-configuration of masculine sexual risk and men's extramarital sex in Vietnam / Harriet M. Phinney -- Whip him in the head with a stick! Marriage, male infidelity, and female confrontation among the Huli / Holly Wardlow -- Going public: modern wives , men's infidelity and marriage in East Central Uganda / Shanti Parikh -- Conclusion: "World enough and time": navigating opportunities and risks in the landscape of desire.