OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Children of the palms: growing plants and growing people in a Papuan Plantationocene	45
Introduction: Towards an anthropology of data	41
Feral ecologies: the making of postcolonial nature in London	25
Anticipating an unwanted future: euthanasia and dementia in the Netherlands	21
Realities of illusion: tracing an anthropology of the unreal from Torres Strait to virtual reality	17
Precarity's reach: intersections of history, life, and labour in the Australian horticultural industry	17
How is it between us? Relational ethics and transcendence	14
Introduction: On irreconciliation	13
Absence in technicolour: protesting enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka	13
The datafication of nature: data formations and new scales in natural history	12
An ontology of water and land in North Bihar, India^★	10
Ebola separations: trust, crisis, and ‘social distancing’ in West Africa	10
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters	10
Crab antics: the moral and political economy of greed accusations in the submerging Sundarbans delta of India	9
Reformist agency: young women, gender, and change in India	9
A reasonable negotiation? Workplace‐based unionists’ subjectivities, wage negotiations, and the day‐to‐day life of an ethical‐political project	8
Future‐proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra‐secure cloud storage	8
Data – ova – gene – data	8
Hacking anthropology	8
Rethinking entrepreneurship through distribution: distributive relations and the reproduction of racialized inequality among South African entrepreneurs	8
Bodies of data: doubles, composites, and aggregates	7
Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality	6
Spirits out of place: relational landscapes and environmental change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia	6
The multiperspectival nature of place names: Ewenki mobility, river naming, and relationships with animals, spirits, and landscapes	5
The final voids: the ambiguity of emptiness in Australian coal mine rehabilitation	5

From connection to contagion	5
Why we blame victims, accuse witches, invent taboos, and invoke spirits: a model of strategic responses to misfortune	5
Becoming data: biometric IDs and the individual in ‘Digital India’	5
Dialogues: anthropology and theology	5
Cant, Alanna. The value of aesthetics: Oaxacan woodcarvers in global economies of culture. x, 186 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2019. £24.99 (paper)	5
The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: house construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos	5
Opting out of the city: lifestyle migrations, alternative education, and the pursuit of happiness among Chinese middle‐class families	5
Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa^★	5
Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners	4
Suspicion and expertise: following the money in an offshore investigation	4
Learning to navigate the ethics of boundaries: schools, youth, and inter‐religious relationships in Manado, Indonesia	4
Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru	4
Beyond the senses: perception, the environment, and vision impairment	4
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya	4
Bala wāsṭa: aspirant professionals, class‐making, and moral narratives of social mobility in Lebanon	3
Conjuring spirits: melancholic play and refusal among alcohol‐drinking Lisu men on the China‐Myanmar border	3
Make me a test and I will save the world: towards an anthropology of the possible in global health	3
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn	3
‘He who relies on relatives and friends die poor’: class closure and stratagems of civility in peri‐urban Kenya	3
Cosmopolitanism and the global economy: notes from China's knowledge factories	3
Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland	3
The cognitive origin and cultural evolution of taboos in human societies	3
Forgetfulness without memory: reconstruction, landscape, and the politics of the everyday in post‐earthquake Gujarat, India	3
New media and the digitized paranormal: instrumentation, affective atmospheres, and the production of history in Chile	3
Heterotopia of the road: driving and drifting in Siberia	3
State‐like and state dislike in the anthropological margins^★	3
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru	3
Sanguma and scepticism: questioning witchcraft in the highlands of Papua New Guinea	3
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana	3
Iphigenia's sacrifice: generational historicity as a structure of feeling in times of austerity	3
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces	3
Aporetic differences? Equality entitlements, religious schools, and contours of protection	3
Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania	3
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya	2
Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme	2
‘It's scientific!’ Play, parody, and the para‐ethnographic in Southwest China	2
Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom	2
Interlocked: kinship, intimate precarity, and plantation labour in India	2
Circulating in difference: performances of publicity on and beyond a Yangon train	2
How Malinowski sailed the Midnight Sun: the academic conference as ethnographic performance	2
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway	2
Critical ontologies: rethinking relations to other‐than‐humans from the Bolivian Andes	2
Data forward: an afterword	2
Listening after the animals: sound and pastoral care in the zoo	2
Voiced into being: the power of sound and the phenomenon of cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva	2
Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation	2
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective	2
A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London	2
Times of debt: heterochrony and bank loans in rural Mongolia	2
Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses	2

Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)	2
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development	2
Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia	2
Austerity, skill, and gendered work in Kazakhstan's heavy industry	2
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari	2
Afterword: Failed projects	2
Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful	2
Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it^★	2
War by other means at the extractive frontier: the violence of reconstruction in ‘post‐war’ Peru	2
Kinship on the waterfront: logistics labour in a global port	2
The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a/’hun: personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalahari	2
A sacred social: Christian relationalism and the re‐enchantment of the world	2
Mediat(iz)ing Catholicism: saint, spectacle, and theopolitics in Lima, Peru	2
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan	2
‘We have been awake for years’: conflicting ecologies in an indigenous land management scheme in Indonesia	2
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity	2
Deadly secret: situating the unknowing and knowing of the source of the Ebola epidemic in Northern Uganda	2
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis	2
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement	2
Sovereignty at what price? Existential displacement at the Lebanese/Syrian border	2
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector	2
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela	1
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey	1
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1
A failing anthropology of colonial failure: following a driver's uniform found at Amani research station, Tanzania	1
Catching the White Fish: gossip and cocaine on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast	1
De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine	1
What is love? The complex relation between values and practice in Vanuatu	1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China	1
Introduction: Forensic anthropology and interdisciplinarity	1
Moral failure: a jeremiad of the war on drugs in Guatemala	1
After Grenfell: accumulation, debris, and forming failure in London	1
From oasis to outlier: sugar beets, an endangered fish, and the moral economy	1
Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe	1
Secularization and its ethical consequences: orthodox Israeli Jews sanctifying ‘mundane’ Buddhist meditation	1
Skeates, Robin & JoDay (eds). The Routledge handbook of sensory archaeology. xviii, 590 pp., maps, figs, tables, plates, illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2020. £190.00 (cloth)	1
Pastoralism after culture: environmental governance and human‐animal estrangement at China's ecological frontier	1
Basotho blankets: ownership and appropriation	1
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia	1
The new monies of the startup world: Future‐focused tech ventures as experiments in personal worth	1
Ghar ki tension: domesticity and distress in India's aspiring middle class	1
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem	1
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)	1
How to manifest abundance: money and the rematerialization of exchange in Sedona, Arizona, USA	1
Genres of waiting: patronage, healthcare, and dyadic sovereignty in Northeast Brazil	1
‘Real Orthodox men’: religious masculinities and the new Russian culture of military patriotism	1
MacCarthy, Michelle. Making the modern primitive: cultural tourism in the Trobriand Islands. xii, 270 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. £68.00 (cloth)	1
Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation	1
Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses	1
Grandparenting as the resolution of kinship as experience	1
Reciprocal exchange, value, and forms of transaction: an archaeological approach from the Atacama Desert (northern Chile)	1
Lukács, Gabriella. Invisibility by design: women and labor in Japan's digital economy. xii, 236 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £19.99 (paper)	1
‘It's not my story to tell’: ownership and the politics of history in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique	1
Discordant temporalities of migration and childhood^★	1
Issue Information‐TOC	1
Besky, Sarah. Tasting qualities: the past and future of tea. xx, 256 pp., table, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £25.00 (paper)Jegathesan, Mythri. Tea and solidarity: Tamil	1
Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement	1
Hart, Keith.Self in the world: connecting life's extremes. xvi, 297 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. Open access (eBook)	1
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Civil war and the non‐linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation	1
The spaces of religion: a view from South Asia★	1
Heritable prerogatives and non‐lineages: proprietary knowledge ownership among the A'uwẽ (Xavante) in central Brazil	1
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice	1
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness	1
Forensic examination of the hand	1
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia	1
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville	1
Rendering the absent visible: victimhood and the irreconcilability of violence	1
Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas	1
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process^⋆	1
Salgó, Eszter.Images from paradise: the visual communication of the European Union's federalist utopia. viii, 239 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. £92.00 (cloth)	1
Faking it or making it: the politics of consumption and the precariousness of social mobility in South Africa	1
Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia	1
More than a mountain: the contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)	1
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio	1
Kleinman, Arthur. The soul of care: the moral education of a husband and a doctor. 272 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Penguin, 2019. $27.00 (cloth)	1
Cutting at the edge: observations on innovation beyond the urban	1
Tuckett, Anna. Rules, paper, status: migrants and precarious bureaucracy in contemporary Italy. xiv, 178 pp., illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper)	0
Rojas, Felipe, Byron EllsworthHamann & BenjaminAnderson (eds). Otros pasados: ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido. 369 pp., illus., bibliogr. Bogotá: Univ. de los Andes, 2022. C	0
Li, Geng. Fate calculation experts: diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China. vi, 151 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £89.00 (cloth)	0

Waters, Thomas.Cursed Britain: a history of witchcraft and black magic in modern times. viii, 350 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,2019. £25.00 (cloth)	0
Buchanan, Sherry. On the Ho Chi Minh Trail: the blood road, the women who defend it, the legacy. 278 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. London: Asia Ink, 2021. £20.00 (cloth)	0
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)	0
Kaplan, Jonathan & Federico ParedesUmaña. Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá. xxviii, 494 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2018. $125.00 (cl	0
Sumich, Jason. The middle class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. xiv, 174 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £75.00 (cloth)	0
McKillop, Heather.Maya salt works. xviii, 234 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £99.95 (cloth)	0
Inhorn, Marcia C. & NefissaNaguib (eds). Reconceiving Muslim men: love and marriage, family and care in precarious times. viii, 335 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £	0
Making home alive again after war: Acoli Kaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda	0
Hinton, Alexander Laban. The justice façade: trials of transition in Cambodia. xx, 282 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2018. £29.49 (paper)	0
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.	0
Cartier, Marie, IsabelleCoutant, OlivierMasclet & YasmineSiblot. The France of the little‐middles: a suburban housing development in greater Paris. ix, 214 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxfo	0
Daggett, Cara New. The birth of energy: fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)	0
Shohet, Merav. Silence and sacrifice: family stories of care and the limits of love in Vietnam. 288 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £27.00 (paper)	0
Qureshi, Kaveri. Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora. xvi, 271 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2019. $44.00 (paper)	0
Books and films received	0
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. Impersonations: the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance. xvi, 225 pp., table, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019. £27.00 (paper)	0
Arnold, Dean E.Maya potters' indigenous knowledge: cognition, engagement, and practice. 264 pp., maps, illus., tables, bibliogr. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2018. £56.00 (cloth)	0
McGranahan, Carole (ed.). Writing anthropology: essays on craft and commitment. x, 309 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)	0
Englund, Harri. Visions for racial equality: David Clement Scott and the struggle for justice in nineteenth‐century Malawi. xvi, 309 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2022. £75.00 (	0
Vilaça, Aparecida. Paletó and me: memories of my indigenous father. 218 pp., maps, illus. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £18.99 (paper)	0
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)	0
The art of jieyuan: ethical affinity and the cultivation of Chinese Buddhist spirituality in Tanzania	0
Knight, Daniel M.Vertiginous life: an anthropology of time and the unforeseen. xiv, 163 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £89.00 (cloth)	0
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access	0
Habeck, Joachim Otto (ed.). Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian north. xx, 465 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2019. £25.95 (paper)	0
Kriger, Colleen E. Making money: life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast. xvi, 238 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2018. £21.99 (paper)	0
Klien, Susanne. Urban migrants in rural Japan: between agency and anomie in a post‐growth society. 203 pp., illus., bibliogr. New York: SUNY Press, 2020. $95.00 (cloth)	0
Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (paper)	0
Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty: land, sex, and the colonial politics of state nationalism. xvii, 275 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2018. £19.99 (pape	0
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)	0
Levent, Nina & Irina D.Mihalache (eds). Food and museums. xiv, 368 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. £29.99 (paper)	0
Books received	0
Feldman, Leah. On the threshold of Eurasia: revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus. xvi, 276 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018. £48.00 (cloth)	0
Reiter, Bernd (ed.). Constructing the pluriverse: the geopolitics of knowledge. xvi, 330 pp., table, figs, bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2018. £20.99 (paper)	0
Huhn, Arianna. Nourishing life: foodways and humanity in an African town. xviii, 216 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	0
Parreñas, Juno Salazar. Decolonizing extinction: the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation. xvi, 267 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2018. £20.99 (paper)	0
Diggins, Jennifer. Coastal Sierra Leone: materiality and the unseen in maritime West Africa. xii, 234 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £75.00 (cloth)	0
Adebanwi, Wale (ed.). The political economy of everyday life in Africa: beyond the margins. xviii, 364 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2017. £60.00 (clot	0
Horowitz, Rachel A. & Grant S.McCall (eds). Lithic technologies in sedentary societies. xvi, 253 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Louisville: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2019. £46.00 (clot	0
Schmidt, Peter R. & Alice B.Kehoe (eds). Archaeologies of listening. viii, 293 pp., maps, illus., bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £109.00 (cloth)	0
Kesting, Marietta. Affective images: post‐apartheid documentary perspectives. xiv, 278 pp., illus., bibliogr. Albany, N.Y.: State Univ. of New York, 2017. £67.75 (cloth)	0
Barrios, Roberto E.Governing affect: neoliberalism and disaster reconstruction. xvi, 288 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2017. £25.99 (paper)	0
Reed‐Danahay, Deborah. Bourdieu and social space: mobilities, trajectories, emplacements. viii, 161 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £89.00 (cloth)	0
Oslender, Ulrich. The geographies of social movements: Afro‐Colombian mobilization and the aquatic space. xiii, 290 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. £20.99 (paper)	0
Stadler, Nurit. Voices of the ritual: devotion to female saints and shrines in the Holy Land. 216 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2020. £64.00 (cloth)	0
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery	0
Rosen, Lawrence. Islam and the rule of justice: image and reality in Muslim law and culture. xii, 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £26.50 (paper)	0
Köhler, Florian. Space, place and identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st century. 246 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	0
Chorev, Nitsan. Give and take: developmental foreign aid and the pharmaceutical industry in East Africa. xiv, 305 pp., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2019. £25.00 (paper)	0
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)	0
Waldby, Catherine. The oocyte economy: the changing meaning of human eggs. viii, 239 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £19.99 (paper)	0
The wedding of two trees: connections, equivalences, and subjunctivity in a Tamil ritual	0
Tilche, Alice. Adivasi art and activism: curation in a nationalist age. 272 pp., illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2022. £79.00 (cloth)	0
Faezi, Daniel Asadi (dir.). The absence of apricots. 49 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2018. £5.00 (VOD rental)	0
Appel, Hannah. The licit life of capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea. xii, 332 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £21.99 (paper)	0
Falser, Michael. Angkor Wat: a transcultural history of heritage (Vol. 1 & 2). 1150 pp., maps, illus., plates, bibliogr. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019. £157.00 (cloth)	0
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)	0
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists	0
Anthro abuzz: fuel, electricity, and ethnography in the era of global boiling	0
Drummond, Lee. Heading for the scene of the crash: the cultural analysis of America. x, 187 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)	0
Kujala, Antti & MirkkaDanielsbacka. Reciprocity in human societies: from ancient times to the modern welfare state. ix, 225 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. £54.99 (cloth)	0
Notes on contributors	0
Martin, Richard Joseph & DieterHaller (eds). Sex: ethnographic encounters. xxiv, 204 pp., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. £24.99 (paper)	0
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)	0
Jones, Graham M. Magic's reason: an anthropology of analogy. x, 208 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £19.00 (paper)	0
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)	0
Books received or requested	0
Getrich, Christina M. Border brokers: children of Mexican immigrants navigating US society, laws, and politics. xvi, 253 pp., illus., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2019. £54.95 (cloth)	0
Chance, Kerry Ryan. Living politics in South Africa's urban shacklands. xvi, 184 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £22.50 (paper)	0
Kelly, William W. The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: professional baseball in modern Japan. xvi, 315 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £27.00 (paper)	0
Jebens, Holger (ed.). Nicht alles verstehen: Wege und Umwege in der deutschen Ethnologie. 399 pp., illus., bibliogr. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2019. €49.00 (paper)	0
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Watts, Laura.Energy at the end of the world: an Orkney Islands saga. xii, 419 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2018. £27.00 (cloth)	0
Gatt, Caroline. An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)	0
Palmer, Catherine. Being and dwelling through tourism: an anthropological perspective. x, 174 pp., fig., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £115.00 (cloth)	0
Herle, Anita & JudePhilp (eds). Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888‐1898. 378 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Sydney: Univ. Press, 2020. £46.99 (paper)	0
Højer, Lars. The anti‐social contract: injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia. xiv, 202 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £99.00 (cloth)	0
Snyder, Gregory J.Skateboarding LA: inside professional street skateboarding. xiii, 295 pp., illus., bibliogr. New York: York Univ. Press, 2017. £24.99 (paper)	0
Ballvé, Teo.The frontier effect: state formation and violence in Colombia. xvi, 228 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2020. £20.99 (paper)	0
Duquette‐Rury, Lauren. Exit and voice: the paradox of cross‐border politics in Mexico. 286 pp., map, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019. £27.00 (paper)	0
Williams, Bianca C.The pursuit of happiness: black women, diasporic dreams, and the politics of emotional transnationalism. xii, 226 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper)	0
Truitt, Allison J. Pure Land in the making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South. 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2021. £25.99 (paper)	0
Stonington, Scott. The spirit ambulance: choreographing the end of life in Thailand. 208 pp., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £25.00 (paper)	0
The death of Elizabeth II on Wikipedia: fleshing out freedom through technoliberal participation online	0
Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina	0
Self‐suasion: agents of Jewish conversion in Israel in search of religious sincerity	0
Babar, Zahra (ed.). Mobility and forced displacement in the Middle East. 320 pp., bibliogrs. London: Hurst & Co., 2020. £25.00 (paper)	0
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	0
ArmytageRosita. Big capital in an unequal world: the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. x, 195 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	0
Janeja, Manpreet K. & AndreasBandak. Ethnographies of waiting: doubt, hope and uncertainty. xv, 212 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)	0
Irreconcilable times	0
Schnegg, Michael & Edward D.Lowe (eds). Comparing cultures: innovations in comparative ethnography. 234 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2020. £19.99 (paper)	0
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (e‐book)	0
Livingston, Julie.Self‐devouring growth: a planetary parable as told from southern Africa. xiv, 160 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)	0
Survivals and the persistence of the past	0