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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)29
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists18
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)18
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)14
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)14
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
Gatt, Caroline. An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)12
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.11
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)10
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice10
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia8
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman8
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)8
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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)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
Mansur, Marcia & MarinaThomé. The sound of bells (O som dos sinos). DVD. 52 min, colour. Waterton, Mass.: DER films, 2016. $320.00 (institutional use)6
Pine, Jason. The alchemy of meth: a decomposition. 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)6
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan6
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development6
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
Rakowski, Tomasz & HelenaPatzer (eds). Pre‐textual ethnographies: challenging the phenomenological level of anthropological knowledge‐making. x, 243 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Herefordshi6
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
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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
Against interpretive exclusivism*5
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice5
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
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana5
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem5
Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword 2)5
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From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values5
From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object4
Books and films received4
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
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
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters4
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
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland3
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
The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India3
Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement3
Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation3
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual3
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)3
‘I was celebrating the justice that the victims got’: exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London3
Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia3
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan3
Women's sense of their hak , divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul3
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition3
Wolf‐Meyer, Matthew J.Unraveling: remaking personhood in a neurodiverse age. xiii, 316 pp., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)3
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 (pa3
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society3
Irreconciliation, reciprocity, and social change (Afterword 1)3
The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes3
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)3
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector2
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
Beekman, Christopher S. (ed.). Migrations in late Mesoamerica. 384 pp., tables, illus., plates, bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £95.95 (cloth)2
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective2
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
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
Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai2
Large questions from a brief encounter2
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
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review2
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
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
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville2
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
The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential2
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
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans2
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
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
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru2
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, Micha2
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness2
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
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Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa2
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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan2
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
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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
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya2
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio2
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research2
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood2
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
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De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine2
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)2
Afterword: The day after liberal reason1
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces1
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity1
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
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‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism1
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
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
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
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
Hénaff, Marcel; trans. Jean‐Louis Morhange. The philosophers’ gift: reexamining reciprocity. x, 255 pp., bibliogr. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2019. £24.99 (paper)1
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)1
Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)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
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
Microbial turns1
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
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
Latif, Rusha. Tahrir's youth: leaders of a leaderless revolution. 356 pp., bibliogr. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022. £29.99 (hardcover)1
A statement from the incoming editor1
Darian‐Smith, Eve. Global burning: rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. 230 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2022. $22.00 (paper)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. C1
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
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia1
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
Introduction: Beyond public reason1
Dent, Alexander Sebastian. Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil. 208 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)1
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari1
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
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter‐community dialogue1
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit1
Samet, Robert.Deadline: populism and the press in Venezuela. xii, 244 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £21.00 (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
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
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction1
Making home alive again after war: AcoliKaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda1
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
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (e‐book)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
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
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process⋆1
Lindström, Jan.Muted memories: heritage‐making, Bagamoyo, and the East African caravan trade. x, 388 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £107.00 (clot1
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
Warnes, Andrew. How the shopping cart explains global consumerism. x, 161 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019. £20.00 (paper)1
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)1
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)1
Perpetration, impunity, and irreconciliation in Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools1
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Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia1
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE1
Notes on contributors1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China1
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
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway1
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
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis1
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
Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease0
Eltringham, Nigel. The anthropology of peace and reconciliation: pax humana. 176 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £34.99 (e‐book)0
Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life0
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
Dahl, Shayne (prod.) & SatoshiWatanabe (dir.). The Buddha mummies of North Japan. 20 mins. DVD / PAL, colour. Watertown, Mass.: DER, 2017. $29.95 (home use)0
Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking0
Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity0
‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects0
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
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State0
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP0
Biocultural synthesis of adolescence: a roadmap to advance the field0
Ortiz, Carolina Arias. Rebel objects. 110 mins. DVD, colour/b&w. Costa Rica: La Linterna Films; El Mito; Milagros Producciones, 2020. £80.000
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
Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland0
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
Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits0
Pignarre, Philippe. Latour‐Stengers: an entangled flight. xiv, 152 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2023. £15.99 (paper)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
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women0
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access0
Strange, Stuart Earle. Suspect others: spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname. xiv, 281 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press. 2021. £46.99 (paper)0
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya0
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)0
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster0
Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India0
Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands0
Feminized labour as public reason in Greek social solidarity clinics and pharmacies0
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
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
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
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
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Sex and stature estimation on the tibia: a virtual pilot study on a contemporary Hispanic population0
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
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late‐capitalist precarity in South Korea0
Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. £50 (institutional); £5 (home)0
‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily0
Demian, Melissa. In memory of times to come: ironies of history in southeastern Papua New Guinea. xii, 228 pp., map, table, figs, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £99.00 (clot0
New horizons in the study of jihad0
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead0
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh0
Ethnography as bridge0
Lino e Silva, Moisés. Minoritarian liberalism: a travesti life in a Brazilian favela. 240 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2022. $27.50 (paper)0
Alexander, Catherine & DanielSosna (eds). Thrift and its paradoxes: from domestic to political economy. 252 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £99.00 (cloth)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
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
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)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
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
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery0
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
‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India0
Survivals and the persistence of the past0
Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania0
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)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
Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly0
Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse0
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Covering the land with oil palm: revelation, value, and landownership among the Kairak‐speaking Baining of Papua New Guinea0
vanWyk, Ilana & JimmyPieterse. Nationalism, politics and anthropology: a tale of two South Africans. 282 pp., bibliogr. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2022. £33.00 (paper)0
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
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
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Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology0
Rashid, Maria. Dying to serve: militarism, affect, and the politics of sacrifice in the Pakistan army. 288 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (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
Ghosts of a different present: spectres of possibility in the lives of older Kyrgyz Muslims0
Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry0
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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