OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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 requested	9
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 development	8
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 activists	7
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia	6
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
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan	6
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 (paper	5
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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, Herefordshi	5
Issue Information	5
Mediat(iz)ing Catholicism: saint, spectacle, and theopolitics in Lima, Peru	5
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 Coleman	5
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 practice	5
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. £30	4
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
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
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters	3
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 Yo	3
Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement	3
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 values	3
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice	3
Books and films received	3
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
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem	3
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana	3
‘I was celebrating the justice that the victims got’: exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London	3
Towards atuwün wariache? Place‐making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city	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)	2
Large questions from a brief encounter	2
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan	2
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio	2
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 (pa	2
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 Kenya	2
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 & SarahMall	2
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 Malaysia	2
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 society	2
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 (p	2
Irreconciliation, reciprocity, and social change (Afterword 1)	2
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 perspective	2
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 notes	2
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition	2
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, India	2
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual	2
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland	2
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, Peru	2
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans	2

Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector	1
Notes on contributors	1
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
A statement from the incoming editor	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
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
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
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari	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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Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa	1
Books received	1
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood	1
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)	1
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
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
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration	1
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
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
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process^⋆	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
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction	1
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)	1
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research	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
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness	1
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)	1
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review	1
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
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)	1
The reification of concrete work in Egyptian film production	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, Micha	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 Book	1
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit	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
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia	1
Crab antics: the moral and political economy of greed accusations in the submerging Sundarbans delta of India	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
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
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Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia	1
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
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. Press	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
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
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China	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: Dietric	1
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
De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine	1
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville	1
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis	1
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement	1
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)	1
Microbial turns	1
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
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	1
Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (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
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
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women	0
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late‐capitalist precarity in South Korea	0
Ortiz, Carolina Arias. Rebel objects. 110 mins. DVD, colour/b&w. Costa Rica: La Linterna Films; El Mito; Milagros Producciones, 2020. £80.00	0
Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking	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
Changing economic experiences and understandings	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, 20	0
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Notes on contributors	0
Luque, Diana, AngelinaMartínez‐Yrízar, AlbertoBúrquez, GerardoLópez Cruz & Arthur D.Murphy. Complejos bioculturales de Sonora pueblos y territorios indígenas. 496 pp., maps, tables, illus., biblio	0
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; foreword	0
Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India	0
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
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
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	0
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
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)	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
Valk, Julie. Selling the kimono: an ethnography of crisis, creativity and hope. 196 pp., illus., bibliogr. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. £36.99 (paper)	0
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)	0
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

Bala wāsṭa: aspirant professionals, class‐making, and moral narratives of social mobility in Lebanon	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
Bandak, Andreas. Exemplary life: modelling sainthood in Christian Syria. 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2022. £23.99 (paper)	0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead	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
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
Survivals and the persistence of the past	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
New horizons in the study of jihad	0
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn	0
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Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access	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
The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia	0
Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa^★	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
Times of debt: heterochrony and bank loans in rural Mongolia	0
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
‘You get sick when you go to the hospital!’ Sickening landscapes, digital exclusiveness, and iatrogenesis in rural North China	0
Jensen, Casper Bruun & AtsuroMorita (eds). Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. viii, 161 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. £22.95 (paper)	0
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery	0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)	0
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela	0
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Ghosts of a different present: spectres of possibility in the lives of older Kyrgyz Muslims	0
Sha, Heila. Care and ageing in north‐west China. 307 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017. £28.99 (paper)	0
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
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
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
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya	0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands	0
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
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State	0
‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily	0
Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. £50 (institutional); £5 (home)	0
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP	0
McKillop, Heather.Maya salt works. xviii, 234 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £99.95 (cloth)	0
Candea, Matei. Comparison in anthropology: the impossible method. xiv, 392 pp., figs, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)	0
Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity	0
Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry	0
Morgan, W. John & FionaBowie (eds). Social anthropologies of the Welsh: past and present. x, 267 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Heref.: Sean Kingston, 2021. £60.00 (paper)	0
Lino e Silva, Moisés. Minoritarian liberalism: a travesti life in a Brazilian favela. 240 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2022. $27.50 (paper)	0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE	0
Ethnography as bridge	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
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages	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
Gatt, Caroline (ed.). The voices of the pages. 117 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Aberdeen: Univ. of Aberdeen; knowingfromtheinside.org., 2017. Open access (pdf)	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 (cl	0
Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits	0
Beynon, Huw & RayHudson. The shadow of the mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain. xii, 402 pp., maps, tables, plates, bibliogr. London: Verso, 2021. £20.00 (cloth)	0
Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina	0
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
Jones, Graham M. Magic's reason: an anthropology of analogy. x, 208 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £19.00 (paper)	0
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Mains, Daniel. Under construction: technologies of development in urban Ethiopia. xii, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper)	0
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Angé, Olivia. Barter and social regeneration in the Argentinean Andes. xii, 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £99.00 (cloth)	0
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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
Fewkes, Jacqueline H. (ed.). Anthropological perspectives on the religious uses of mobile apps. 268 pp., tables, bibliogrs. London: Palgrave, 2019. £89.99 (cloth)	0
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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Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)	0
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