Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gatt, Caroline. An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)27
Burt, Ben. The Museum of Mankind: man and boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department. viii, 163 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £89.00 (cloth)13
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.13
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)12
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)11
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)11
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)10
Books received or requested9
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)9
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development8
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)7
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists7
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan6
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia6
Ma, Ngok & Edmund W.Cheng (eds). The Umbrella Movement: civil resistance and contentious space in Hong Kong. 355 pp., figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Amsterdam: Univ. Press, 2019. £117.00 (cloth)6
Mediat(iz)ing Catholicism: saint, spectacle, and theopolitics in Lima, Peru5
Johnson, Jessica. In search of gender justice: rights and relationships in matrilineal Malawi. xvi, 197 pp., maps, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £75.00 (cloth)5
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)5
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman5
Against interpretive exclusivism*5
Mansur, Marcia & MarinaThomé. The sound of bells (O som dos sinos). DVD. 52 min, colour. Waterton, Mass.: DER films, 2016. $320.00 (institutional use)5
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice5
Phillips, Kristin D.An ethnography of hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun. xxvi, 207 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2018. £21.99 (paper5
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Rakowski, Tomasz & HelenaPatzer (eds). Pre‐textual ethnographies: challenging the phenomenological level of anthropological knowledge‐making. x, 243 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Herefordshi5
Issue Information5
Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword 2)4
Shokeid, Moshe. Can academics change the world? An Israeli anthropologist's testimony on the rise and fall of a protest movement on campus. xiv, 200 pp., illlus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn 4
Todd, Emmanuel; trans. Andrew Brown. Lineages of modernity: a history of humanity from the Stone Age to Homo americanus. xx, 427 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2019. £304
Pine, Jason. The alchemy of meth: a decomposition. 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)4
Oliver‐Smith, Anthony & Susanna M.Hoffman (eds). The angry earth: disaster in anthropological perspective. 418 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020. £46.99 (paper)4
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem3
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana3
‘I was celebrating the justice that the victims got’: exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London3
Towards atuwün wariache? Place‐making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city3
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters3
Darieva, Tsypylma, FlorianMühlfried & KevinTuite (eds). Sacred places, emerging spaces: religious pluralism in the post‐Soviet Caucasus. x, 235 pp., maps, illus., tables, bibliogrs. Oxford, New Yo3
Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement3
Lean, Nathan. The Islamophobia industry: how the right manufactures hatred of Muslims (second edition). xxiv, 304 pp., bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2017. £12.00 (paper)3
From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values3
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice3
Books and films received3
Sachedina, Amal. Cultivating the past, living the modern: the politics of time in the Sultanate of Oman. 300 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2021. £25.99 (paper)3
Acosta, Raúl. Civil becomings: performative politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean. 224 pp., illus, bibliogr. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2020. £47.50 (cloth)2
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective2
Izzo, Justin. Experiments with empire: anthropology and fiction in the French Atlantic. x, 282 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)2
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Beekman, Christopher S. (ed.). Migrations in late Mesoamerica. 384 pp., tables, illus., plates, bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £95.95 (cloth)2
The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes2
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition2
Mougoué, Jacqueline‐Bethel Tchouta. Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon. 345 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. £29.50 (paper)2
The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India2
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual2
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland2
Lucassen, Jan. The story of work: a new history of humankind. 544 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogr. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2021. £25.00 (cloth)2
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru2
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans2
Jain, Kajri. Gods in the time of democracy. xx, 336 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £26.99 (paper)2
Large questions from a brief encounter2
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan2
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio2
Wolf‐Meyer, Matthew J.Unraveling: remaking personhood in a neurodiverse age. xiii, 316 pp., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)2
Schwenkel, Christina. Building socialism: the afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam. x, 403 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £26.99 (pa2
Lems, Annika. Being‐here: placemaking in a world of movement. x, 240 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)2
Neely, Abigail H.Reimagining social medicine from the South. xxi, 200 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £18.99 (paper)2
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya2
Agier, Michel, et al.; trans. David Fernbach. The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants. 200 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Polity, 2018. £15.99 (paper)Hicks, Dan & SarahMall2
Fountain, Philip. The service of faith: an ethnography of Mennonites and development. 366 pp., 7 illus., bibliogr. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University, 2024. CA$44.95 (paper)2
McNeill, Desmond.Fetishism and the theory of value: reassessing Marx in the 21st century. xix, 322 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. £79.50 (ebook)2
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)2
Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia2
Steinberg, Jonah. A garland of bones: child runaways in India. xiv, 337 pp., illus., bibliogr. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. £45.00 (cloth)2
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society2
Weidman, Amanda. Brought to life by the voice: playback singing and cultural politics in South India. 270 pp., table, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. Open access; £30.00 (p2
Irreconciliation, reciprocity, and social change (Afterword 1)2
Blanchette, Alex. Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm. 320 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £24.99 (paper)1
Knudsen, Are John & Kjersti G.Berg (eds). Continental encampment: genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe. 296 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Book1
De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine1
Lyon, Stephen M.Political kinship in Pakistan: descent, marriage, and government stability. xii, 135 pp., figs, bibliogr. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2019. £69.00 (cloth)1
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville1
Horton, Sarah B. & JosiahHeyman (eds). Paper trails: migrants, documents, and legal insecurity. vi, 258 pp., bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)1
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia1
Microbial turns1
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. C1
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)1
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector1
Schnegg, Michael & Edward D.Lowe (eds). Comparing cultures: innovations in comparative ethnography. 234 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2020. £19.99 (paper)1
A statement from the incoming editor1
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari1
Wynn, L.L. Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt: navigating the margins of respectability. viii, 248 pp., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2018. £23.99 (paper)1
Sahlins, Marshall. The new science of the enchanted universe: an anthropology of most of humanity. xii, 196 pp., illus., bibliogr. Princeton: University Press, 2022. £22.00 (cloth)1
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‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis1
Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa1
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)1
Books received1
Sánchez Hall, Alison. All or none: cooperation and sustainability in Italy's Red Belt. ix, 263 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £99.00 (cloth)1
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood1
Notes on contributors1
Shange, Savannah. Progressive dystopia: abolition, antiblackness, + schooling in San Francisco. xiv, 212 pp., figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £19.99 (paper)1
Chao, Sophie. In the shadow of the palms: more‐than‐human becomings in West Papua. x, 321 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2022. £24.99 (paper)1
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration1
Koellner, Tobias (ed.). Family firms and business families in cross‐cultural perspective. xviii, 318 pp., bibliogrs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £37.99 (e‐book)1
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process⋆1
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)1
Berzon, Todd S.Classifying Christians: ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in Late Antiquity. 316 pp., bibliogr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. £30.00 (paper)1
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)1
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research1
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)1
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness1
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review1
Renne, Elisha P.Veils, turbans, and Islamic reform in northern Nigeria. xii, 251 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)1
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)1
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)1
Jónsson, Gunvor. Urban displacement and trade in a Senegalese market: an anthropology of endings. xvi, 230 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2024. £30.00 (paper)1
The reification of concrete work in Egyptian film production1
Sharp, Lesley A.Animal ethos: the morality of human‐animal encounters in experimental lab science. xiv, 296 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £27.00 (paper)1
Kasstan, Ben. Making bodies kosher: the politics of reproduction among Haredi Jews in England. xiv, 272 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £99.00 (cloth)Kravel‐Tovi, Micha1
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction1
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit1
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia1
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)1
Crab antics: the moral and political economy of greed accusations in the submerging Sundarbans delta of India1
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)1
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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)1
Shore, Cris & David V.Williams (eds). The shapeshifting Crown: locating the state in postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK. xiv, 274 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China1
Feldman, Gregory.The gray zone: sovereignty, human smuggling, and undercover police investigation in Europe. xxii, 214 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2019. £21.99 (paper)1
Krause, Franz, NoraHorisberger, BenoitIvars & SandroSimon. Deltawelten/Delta worlds: Leben zwischen Land und Wasser/Life between land and water. x, 237 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Berlin: Dietric1
Fewkes, Jacqueline H. (ed.). Anthropological perspectives on the religious uses of mobile apps. 268 pp., tables, bibliogrs. London: Palgrave, 2019. £89.99 (cloth)0
‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects0
deCesari, Chiara. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. xvi, 269 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)0
Murra, John V.; prepared by Freda Yancy Wolf & Heather Lechtman. Reciprocity and redistribution in Andean civilizations: the 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. xxvi, 94 pp., maps, figs, tables, ill0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE0
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh0
Wheeler, William. Environment and post‐Soviet transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea region: sea changes. xxii, 264 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2021. Open access; £25.00 (paper)0
Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme0
Foks, Freddy. Participant observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain. xiv, 263 pp., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2023. £30.00 (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
Boškovič, Aleksandar & GüntherSchlee (eds). African political systems revisited: changing perspectives on statehood and power. 278 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £90
Pignarre, Philippe. Latour‐Stengers: an entangled flight. xiv, 152 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2023. £15.99 (paper)0
Sadana, Rashmi. The moving city: scenes from the Delhi Metro and the social life of infrastructure. viii, 251 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2022. £25.00 (paper)0
Folch, Christine. Hydropolitics: the Itaipú dam, sovereignty, and the engineering of modern South America. xviii, 250 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (p0
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)0
Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse0
Herzfeld, Michael. Subversive archaism: troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritage. xvi, 239 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2022. £21.99 (paper)0
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster0
Tumbaga, Ariel Zatarain. Yaqui Indigeneity: epistemology, diaspora, and the construction of Yoeme identity. viii, 215 pp., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2018. £36.50 (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
Binford, Leigh, LesleyGill & SteveStriffler (eds). Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America. 228 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)0
The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands0
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)0
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late‐capitalist precarity in South Korea0
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
Ortiz, Carolina Arias. Rebel objects. 110 mins. DVD, colour/b&w. Costa Rica: La Linterna Films; El Mito; Milagros Producciones, 2020. £80.000
Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking0
Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (paper)0
Driessen, Miriam. Tales of hope, tastes of bitterness: Chinese road builders in Ethiopia. viii, 198 pp., maps, bibliogr. Hong Kong: Univ. Press, 2019. £37.00 (cloth)0
Duwe, Samuel & Robert W.Preucel (eds). The continuous path: Pueblo movement and the archaeology of becoming. xiv, 279 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 200
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women0
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Luque, Diana, AngelinaMartínez‐Yrízar, AlbertoBúrquez, GerardoLópez Cruz & Arthur D.Murphy. Complejos bioculturales de Sonora pueblos y territorios indígenas. 496 pp., maps, tables, illus., biblio0
Changing economic experiences and understandings0
Gazagnadou, Didier; trans. L.Byrne. Diffusion of techniques, globalization and subjectivities. 114 pp., bibliogr. Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2016. €15.00 (paper)Gazagnadou, Didier; trans. L.Byrne; foreword0
Marchand, Trevor H.J. The pursuit of pleasurable work: craftwork in twenty‐first‐century England. 482 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £132.00 (cloth)0
Notes on contributors0
Garvey, Pauline & DanielMiller. Ageing with smartphones in Ireland: when life becomes craft. xiv, 240 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2021. £25.00 (paper)0
Valk, Julie. Selling the kimono: an ethnography of crisis, creativity and hope. 196 pp., illus., bibliogr. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. £36.99 (paper)0
Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India0
Tamminen, Sakari.Biogenetic paradoxes of the nation: Finncattle, apples, and other genetic‐resource puzzles. x, 261 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper)0
Bala wāsṭa: aspirant professionals, class‐making, and moral narratives of social mobility in Lebanon0
Bandak, Andreas. Exemplary life: modelling sainthood in Christian Syria. 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2022. £23.99 (paper)0
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)0
Zia, Ather. Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women’s activism in Kashmir. xviii, 267 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2019. £25.99 (paper)0
Ruiz‐Serna, Daniel. When forests run amok: war and its afterlives in Indigenous and Afro‐Colombian territories. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2023. $26.95 (paper)0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead0
Damaske, Sarah. The tolls of uncertainty: how privilege and the guilt gap shape unemployment in America. 336 pp., tables, bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2021. £22.00 (cloth)0
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)0
Rommel, Carl.Egypt's football revolution: emotion, masculinity, and uneasy politics. xvi, 296 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2021. £49.00 (cloth)0
Oliphant, Elayne. The privilege of being banal: art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2021. £24.00 (paper)0
New horizons in the study of jihad0
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Henig, David, AnnaStrhan & JoelRobbins (eds). Where is the good in the world? Ethical life between social theory and philosophy. viii, 251 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £0
Kirsch, Stuart. Engaged anthropology: politics beyond the text. xvi, 306 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £24.95 (paper)0
Survivals and the persistence of the past0
Times of debt: heterochrony and bank loans in rural Mongolia0
Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa★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
Jensen, Casper Bruun & AtsuroMorita (eds). Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. viii, 161 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. £22.95 (paper)0
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access0
‘You get sick when you go to the hospital!’ Sickening landscapes, digital exclusiveness, and iatrogenesis in rural North China0
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)0
The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia0
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela0
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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
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Sha, Heila. Care and ageing in north‐west China. 307 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017. £28.99 (paper)0
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery0
Zani, Leah. Bomb children: life in the former battlefields of Laos. x, 171 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)0
Kay, Jon (ed.). The expressive lives of elders: folklore, art and aging. xii, 207 pp., illus., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2018. £31.00 (paper)0
Ghosts of a different present: spectres of possibility in the lives of older Kyrgyz Muslims0
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya0
Lawless, Elaine J.; foreword by Amy Shuman. Reciprocal ethnography and the power of women's narratives. 216 pp., table, bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2019. £23.99 (paper)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
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State0
Candea, Matei. Comparison in anthropology: the impossible method. xiv, 392 pp., figs, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands0
Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. £50 (institutional); £5 (home)0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE0
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