OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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)	28
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.	16
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)	14
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	12
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)	12
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)	11
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
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)	10
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists	9
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
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
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman	7
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia	7
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice	6
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan	6
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Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)	6
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	5
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
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
Pine, Jason. The alchemy of meth: a decomposition. 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)	5
Mediat(iz)ing Catholicism: saint, spectacle, and theopolitics in Lima, Peru	5
Rakowski, Tomasz & HelenaPatzer (eds). Pre‐textual ethnographies: challenging the phenomenological level of anthropological knowledge‐making. x, 243 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Herefordshi	5
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)	5
Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword 2)	5

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Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development	5
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana	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
Against interpretive exclusivism^*	4
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters	4
Towards atuwün wariache? Place‐making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city	4
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice	4
From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values	4
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem	4
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
‘I was celebrating the justice that the victims got’: exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London	3
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	3
The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India	3
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland	3
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
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
Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement	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 (pa	3
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society	3
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition	3
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
The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes	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
Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia	3
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
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan	3
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
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	2
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	2
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans	2
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru	2
Large questions from a brief encounter	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
Irreconciliation, reciprocity, and social change (Afterword 1)	2
Issue Information‐TOC	2
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective	2
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness	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
De novo kin: sharing data, shielding persons, and forging relatedness in precision medicine	2
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville	2
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)	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
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
Beekman, Christopher S. (ed.). Migrations in late Mesoamerica. 384 pp., tables, illus., plates, bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £95.95 (cloth)	2
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual	2
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research	2
Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai	2

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Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa	2
Books received	2
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood	2
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya	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
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
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
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio	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
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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
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
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
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)	1
Microbial turns	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
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
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review	1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity	1
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector	1
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)	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
Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence	1
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces	1
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction	1
Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)	1
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration	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
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
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (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
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis	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
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
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process^⋆	1
A statement from the incoming editor	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
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
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari	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
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
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter‐community dialogue	1
Darian‐Smith, Eve. Global burning: rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. 230 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2022. $22.00 (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
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway	1
Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement	1
Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia	1
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit	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
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia	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
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
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
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
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
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)	1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia	1
Samet, Robert.Deadline: populism and the press in Venezuela. xii, 244 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £21.00 (paper)	1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China	1
Notes on contributors	1
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
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)	1
Making home alive again after war: AcoliKaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda	1
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Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse	0
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn	0
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Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (paper)	0
Bennett, Tony, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis & Conal McCarthy. Collecting, ordering, governing: anthropology, museums, and liberal government. xx, 340 pp., ma	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
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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
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
Sha, Heila. Care and ageing in north‐west China. 307 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017. £28.99 (paper)	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
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
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The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a/’hun: personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalahari	0
New horizons in the study of jihad	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
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
Ethnography as bridge	0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead	0
The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands	0
Afterword	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
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
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women	0
Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland	0
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)	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
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands	0
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)	0
Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India	0
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya	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
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late‐capitalist precarity in South Korea	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
Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits	0
Covering the land with oil palm: revelation, value, and landownership among the Kairak‐speaking Baining of Papua New Guinea	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
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
Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe	0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (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
Konstantinović, Radomir; ed. Branislav Jakovljević; trans. Ljiljana Nikolić & Branislav Jakovljević. The philosophy of parochialism. x, 356 pp., bibliogrs. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2021	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
Ferme, Mariane C. Out of war: violence, trauma and the political imagination in Sierra Leone. xiv, 318 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £27.00 (paper)	0
Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. £50 (institutional); £5 (home)	0
MorenoGarcía, JuanCarlos. The state in ancient Egypt: power, challenges and dynamics. xvi, 226 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £21.99 (paper)	0
Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology	0
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)	0
‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India	0
Manderson, Lenore, Nancy J.Burke & AyoWahlberg (eds). Viral loads: anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID‐19. xxii, 466 pp., figs., illus., bibliogrs. London: UCL Press, 2021. £25.00 (pape	0
Notes on contributors	0
Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity	0
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery	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
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
Boškovič, Aleksandar & GüntherSchlee (eds). African political systems revisited: changing perspectives on statehood and power. 278 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £9	0
Survivals and the persistence of the past	0
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages	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
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 (p	0
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)	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
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
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access	0
What do other men think? Understanding (mis)perceptions of peer gender role ideology among young Tanzanian men	0
McKillop, Heather.Maya salt works. xviii, 234 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £99.95 (cloth)	0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE	0
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela	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
Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking	0
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
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh	0
Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania	0
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 (clot	0
The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia	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
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
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
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
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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
deCesari, Chiara. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. xvi, 269 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)	0
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
Bandak, Andreas. Exemplary life: modelling sainthood in Christian Syria. 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2022. £23.99 (paper)	0
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey	0
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State	0
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster	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 face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP	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
‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily	0
Bala wāsṭa: aspirant professionals, class‐making, and moral narratives of social mobility in Lebanon	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
Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry	0
Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India	0
Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru	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
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
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
Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme	0
Jensen, Casper Bruun & AtsuroMorita (eds). Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. viii, 161 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. £22.95 (paper)	0
Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina	0
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	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
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‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects	0
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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease	0