Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists18
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)18
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)16
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)15
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice12
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)12
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan11
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman10
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)9
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)8
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)7
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Mattina, Nancy.Uncommon anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American culture. 350 pp., illus., bibliogr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. $34.95 (paper)7
Zee, Jerry C.Continent in dust: experiments in a Chinese weather system. 312 pp., bibliogr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. £25.00 (paper)7
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 6
Voice and agency in Spiritualist mediumship: or, who speaks when spirits speak?6
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice6
From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object6
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)6
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development6
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. £305
Against interpretive exclusivism *5
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From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values5
Pine, Jason. The alchemy of meth: a decomposition. 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)5
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López, J.M.Good enough mothers: practicing nurture and motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico. 200 pp., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £23.95 (paper)5
Property as sovereignty in micro : the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem5
Chao, Sophie, KarinBolender & EbenKirksey (eds). The promise of multispecies justice. 284 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. $26.95 (paper)5
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The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India4
Books and films received4
The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes4
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 (p4
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society4
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)4
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 (pa4
Wolf‐Meyer, Matthew J.Unraveling: remaking personhood in a neurodiverse age. xiii, 316 pp., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)4
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland4
Zhang, Amy.Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in urban China. 248 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2024. £24.99 (paper)4
Women's sense of their hak , divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul4
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)4
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)4
Pulford, Ed.Past progress: time and politics at the borders of China, Russia, and Korea, 335 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2024. $32.00 (paper)4
Leonard, Douglas W.Anthropology, colonial policy, and the decline of the French empire in Africa. 248 pp., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. £29.99 (paper)4
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‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya3
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Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition3
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan3
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)3
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)3
Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai3
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual3
The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential3
Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia3
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)3
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)3
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans3
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)3
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)3
Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation3
Agier, Michel, et al .; trans. David Fernbach. The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants. 200 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Polity, 2018.3
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru3
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)3
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)2
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: Dietric2
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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)2
McCoy‐Torres, Sabia. Vibes up: Reggae and Afro‐Caribbean migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn. 287 pp., bibliogr. New York: New York University Press, 2024. $30.00 (paper)2
Large questions from a brief encounter2
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos , agency, and personhood2
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective2
Koellner, Tobias (ed.). Family firms and business families in cross‐cultural perspective. xviii, 318 pp., bibliogrs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £37.99 (e‐book)2
Shore, Cris & SusanWright. Audit culture: how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world. 256 pp., bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2024. £19.99 (paper)2
Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa2
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)2
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Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)2
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness2
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 Book2
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)2
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)2
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)2
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review2
Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds2
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Amaral, Virginia. Areruya and Indigenous prophetism in northern Amazonia. 296 pp., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. £85.00 (hardback)2
De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine2
A statement from the incoming editor2
Books received2
Microbial turns2
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector2
Liquidity, the makings of India's emerging economic body2
Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond2
Gould, Hannah. When death falls apart: making and unmaking the necromaterial tradition of contemporary Japan. 208 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2023. $30.00 (paper)2
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research2
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville2
Afterword: The day after liberal reason2
Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan2
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)2
Gieser, Thorsten. Living with wolves: affects, feelings and sentiments in human‐wolf‐coexistence. 234 pp., bibliogr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. $40.00 (paper)2
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)1
Véran, Jean‐François, DorisBurtscher & BeverleyStringer (eds). Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian situations: an anthropological exploration. xix, 259 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. London1
Alexy, Allison. Intimate disconnections: divorce and the romance of independence in contemporary Japan. 248 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2020. £22.00 (paper)1
Huard, Stéphen.Calibrated engagement: chronicles of local politics in the heartland of Myanmar. 336 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2024. £104.00 (hardback)1
Tilche, Alice. Adivasi art and activism: curation in a nationalist age. 272 pp., illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2022. £79.00 (cloth)1
Belloni, Milena. The big gamble: the migration of Eritreans to Europe. x, 228 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019, £30.00 (paper)1
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Notes on contributors1
Comment by Andrew Shryock1
Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships1
Forced gifts and moral claims: entitlement, fear, and the moral economy of fish in coastal Kenya1
Weiss, Margot (ed.) . Unsettling queer anthropology: foundations, reorientations, and departures. 344 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Unive1
Singing to the saint: labour of healing at Jaunpur dargahs1
Samet, Robert . Deadline: populism and the press in Venezuela. xii, 244 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £21.00 (paper)1
Nationals through tax: claiming citizenship as fiscal subjects in Latvia and Estonia1
Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence1
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway1
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia1
‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity1
Autonomous partners: asymmetry and masculinity in Amazonian river trade1
Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro.Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility. 258 pp., bibliogr. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. £22.46 (paper)1
Dent, Alexander Sebastian. Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil. 208 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)1
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (e‐book)1
Relocating the future: biographical objects, aspiration, and repair in urban Taipei1
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
Otto, Ton, ChristianSuhr & GaryKildea (dirs). On behalf of the living. DVD (video). Documentary Educational Resources, 2023. $34.95 (home use)1
Loperfido, Giacomo (ed.). Extremism, society, and the state. 156 pp., bibliogr. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021. £7.95 (paper)1
Slotta, James. Anarchy and the art of listening: the politics and pragmatics of reception in Papua New Guinea. 216 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2023. £27.99 (paper)1
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
Desjarlais, Robert & KhalilHabrih. Traces of violence: writings on the disaster in Paris, France. xxxiv, 280 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2022. £27.00 (paper)1
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
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Introduction: Beyond public reason1
Zhang, Charlie Yi.Dreadful desires: the uses of love in neoliberal China. 280 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. $27.95 (paper)1
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
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement1
Irizarry, Joshua.Sōjiji: discipline, compassion, and enlightenment at a Japanese Zen temple. 310 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. $29.95 (paper)1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia1
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter‐community dialogue1
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
And then there was us1
Olko, Justyna, JohnSullivan & JanSzemiński (eds). Dialogue with Europe, dialogue with the past: colonial Nahua and Quechua elites in their own words. xii, 363 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Louisvil1
Gupta, Radhika.Freedom in captivity: negotiations of belonging along Kashmir's frontier. 290 pp., figs, bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 2023. £90.64 (cloth)1
For an inviting anthropology1
Taylor, Timothy D.Working musicians: labor and creativity in film and television production. x, 254 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2023. £22.99 (paper)1
The cognitive origin and cultural evolution of taboos in human societies1
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
Küchle, Andreas.Class formation, social inequality and the Nagas in North‐east India. xii, 257 pp., figs, tables, bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2019. £120.00 (cloth)1
Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)1
XiangBiao & WuQi; trans. David Ownby. Self as method: thinking through China and the world. vii, 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £44.99 (cloth)1
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction1
Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China1
Micale, Mark S. & HansPols (eds). Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present. xiv, 345 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books,1
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
Aigner, Katherine & NicolaMapelli. Oceania and Southeast Asia: The Vatican Museum collections. 400 pp., bibliogr. Vatican City: Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2022. €40 (paper).1
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces1
Wassach : firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit1
What does it mean to ‘live well’? The contentious politics of vivir bien as alternative development1
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration1
Nucho, Joanne Randa. Everyday sectarianism in urban Lebanon: infrastructures, public services, and power. 192 pp., illus., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2016. £70.00 (cloth)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
Dorondel, Ştefan & SteluŞerban (eds). A new ecological order: development and the transformation of nature in Eastern Europe. 300 pp., bibliogr. Pittsburgh: University Press, 2022. $60.00 (hardcov1
Making home alive again after war: Acoli Kaka ’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda1
Latif, Rusha. Tahrir's youth: leaders of a leaderless revolution. 356 pp., bibliogr. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022. £29.99 (hardcover)1
Darian‐Smith, Eve. Global burning: rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. 230 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2022. $22.00 (paper)1
Dialogues: decolonizing anthropology – complicating centres and margins1
Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self0
Hastrup, Kirsten (ed.). Klassiske og moderne antropologiske taenkere. 702 pp., bibliogr. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2020. 490.00 KR (hardback)0
Kovač, Uroš. The precarity of masculinity: football, Pentecostalism, and transnational aspirations in Cameroon. xiv, 173 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £99.00 (cl0
Omura, Keiichi, Grant JunOtsuki, ShihoSatsuka & AtsuroMorita (eds). The world multiple: the quotidian politics of knowing and generating entangled worlds. xviii, 260 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London0
Rural boredom: atmospheres of blocked promises0
Ortiz, Carolina Arias. Rebel objects. 110 mins. DVD, colour/b&w. Costa Rica: La Linterna Films; El Mito; Milagros Producciones, 2020. £80.000
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Sovereignty at what price? Existential displacement at the Lebanese/Syrian border0
Velásquez, Teresa A.Pachamama politics: Campesino water defenders and the anti‐mining movement in Andean Ecuador. 272 pp., bibliogr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022. $35.00 (paper)0
Brumann, Christoph. The best we share: nation, culture and world‐making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena. xii, 303 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £100.00 (clo0
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
Sandstrom, Alan & Pamela EffreinSandstrom. Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua sacred journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana. 478 pp., bibliogr. Denver: University of Colorado Press, 2023. $340
The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece0
Reasoning without consensus: grassroots experiments in radical inclusion in Israel/Palestine0
Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity0
vanWyk, Ilana & JimmyPieterse. Nationalism, politics and anthropology: a tale of two South Africans. 282 pp., bibliogr. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2022. £33.00 (paper)0
New horizons in the study of jihad0
Behavioural complexity, cultural mosaics, and the routeways to modern behaviour from a Middle Pleistocene European perspective0
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
Palmié, Stephan. Thinking with ngangas: what Afro‐Cuban ritual can tell us about scientific practice and vice versa. 288 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2023. $30.00 (paper)0
Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment0
Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India0
‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily0
Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry0
Biocultural synthesis of adolescence: a roadmap to advance the field0
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands0
Issa, Perla. The endurance of Palestinian political factions: an everyday perspective from Nahr El‐Bared camp. xii, 171 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £27.00 (paper)0
Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia0
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State0
‘Real Orthodox men’: religious masculinities and the new Russian culture of military patriotism0
Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon0
‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine0
Bonacchi, Chiara. Heritage and nationalism: understanding populism through big data. xx, 208 pp., figs., tables, illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2022. £20.00 (paper)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
The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia0
Vaczi, Mariann & AlanBairner (eds). Indigenous, traditional, and folk sports: contesting modernities. 296 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2024. £38.99 (e‐book)0
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster0
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)0
Forensic examination of the hand0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)0
Linguistic anthropology of AI: an afterword0
Eltringham, Nigel. The anthropology of peace and reconciliation: pax humana. 176 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £34.99 (e‐book)0
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela0
‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India0
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Recovering our ancestral foodways: Indigenous traditions as a recipe for living well. 248 pp., bibliogr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. £25.00 (paper)0
Englund, Harri. Gogo Breeze: Zambia's radio elder and the voices of free speech. xi, 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £26.00 (paper)0
‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects0
From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots0
Guesting: rethinking the relationship between hospitality and homemaking within temporary refugee accommodation0
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead0
Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe0
Sex and stature estimation on the tibia: a virtual pilot study on a contemporary Hispanic population0
Ethnography as bridge0
Reed, Amber R.Nostalgia after apartheid: disillusionment, youth, and democracy in South Africa. 258 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Notre Dame: Univ. Press, 2020. £50.00 (cloth)0
Introduction: Forensic anthropology and interdisciplinarity0
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
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Presidents, priests, and prophets: covenantal Christian nationalism and the challenge of biblical analogy0
Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation0
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Trauger, Amy & Jennifer L.Fluri.Engendering development: capitalism and inequality in the global economy. xii, 159 pp., maps, illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2019. £39.99 (paper)0
Bessire, Lucas. Running out: in search of water on the High Plains. 264 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2021. £22.00 (cloth)0
Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah's Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state0
‘Beware of dalals ’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh0
Cuba's food sovereignty intermediaries0
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