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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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.	17
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
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)	12
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)	12
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)	11
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)	11
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)	10
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists	10
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)	9
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia	8
Issue Information	7
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman	7
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice	7
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development	6
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan	6
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)	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
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
From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values	5
Zee, Jerry C.Continent in dust: experiments in a Chinese weather system. 312 pp., bibliogr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. £25.00 (paper)	5
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Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword 2)	5
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	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	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
Mediat(iz)ing Catholicism: saint, spectacle, and theopolitics in Lima, Peru	5
Pine, Jason. The alchemy of meth: a decomposition. 224 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)	5
Towards atuwün wariache? Place‐making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city	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
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem	4
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Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice	4
From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object	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	4
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters	4
Against interpretive exclusivism^*	4
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana	4
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
Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul	3
The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India	3
Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia	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
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
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
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
Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation	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 clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes	3
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland	3
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition	3
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective	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
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
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
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
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research	2
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Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (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
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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
Irreconciliation, reciprocity, and social change (Afterword 1)	2
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society	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
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual	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
The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential	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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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
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
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya	2
Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai	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
Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa	2
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
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood	2
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit	1
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces	1
Notes on contributors	1
Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence	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
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
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (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
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia	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
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector	1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity	1
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari	1
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)	1
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. Louisvil	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
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter‐community dialogue	1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia	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
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Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)	1
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)	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
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
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
Microbial turns	1
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis	1
A statement from the incoming editor	1
Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia	1
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review	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
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
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
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Latif, Rusha. Tahrir's youth: leaders of a leaderless revolution. 356 pp., bibliogr. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022. £29.99 (hardcover)	1
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The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China	1
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration	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
Making home alive again after war: AcoliKaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda	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
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
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
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
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (e‐book)	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
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
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
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction	1
Samet, Robert.Deadline: populism and the press in Venezuela. xii, 244 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £21.00 (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
Darian‐Smith, Eve. Global burning: rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. 230 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: University Press, 2022. $22.00 (paper)	1
Ortiz, Carolina Arias. Rebel objects. 110 mins. DVD, colour/b&w. Costa Rica: La Linterna Films; El Mito; Milagros Producciones, 2020. £80.00	0
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery	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
Bala wāsṭa: aspirant professionals, class‐making, and moral narratives of social mobility in Lebanon	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
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)	0
Eltringham, Nigel. The anthropology of peace and reconciliation: pax humana. 176 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £34.99 (e‐book)	0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands	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
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

Survivals and the persistence of the past	0
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
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
Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life	0
Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity	0
The value of transformation: agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands	0
Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking	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
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
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Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)	0
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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
Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. £50 (institutional); £5 (home)	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
Candea, Matei. Comparison in anthropology: the impossible method. xiv, 392 pp., figs, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)	0
Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru	0
Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry	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
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
Lino e Silva, Moisés. Minoritarian liberalism: a travesti life in a Brazilian favela. 240 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2022. $27.50 (paper)	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
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE	0
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP	0
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)	0
The gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya	0
Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme	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
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
Afterword	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
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	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
Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India	0
Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits	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
Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (paper)	0
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
Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe	0
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late‐capitalist precarity in South Korea	0
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn	0
What do other men think? Understanding (mis)perceptions of peer gender role ideology among young Tanzanian men	0
Covering the land with oil palm: revelation, value, and landownership among the Kairak‐speaking Baining of Papua New Guinea	0
Zimmer‐Tamakoshi, Laura (ed.). First fieldwork: Pacific anthropology 1960‐1985. x, 251 pp., map, illus., bibliogrs. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. £30.95 (paper)	0
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Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe	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
‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects	0
Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease	0
deCesari, Chiara. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. xvi, 269 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (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
Fewkes, Jacqueline H. (ed.). Anthropological perspectives on the religious uses of mobile apps. 268 pp., tables, bibliogrs. London: Palgrave, 2019. £89.99 (cloth)	0
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh	0
The paradoxes of failure in post‐welfare: an auto‐ethnography of caregiver labour for disabled persons in New York State	0
Breeding sovereignty: the production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela	0
Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse	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
Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self	0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE	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
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
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women	0
The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a/’hun: personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalahari	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
Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina	0
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages	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
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
Millar, Stephen R.Sounding dissent: rebel songs, resistance, and Irish Republicanism. xvi, 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020. £64.50 (cloth)	0
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access	0
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
‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India	0
‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily	0
Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India	0
The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead	0
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Guesting: rethinking the relationship between hospitality and homemaking within temporary refugee accommodation	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
Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania	0
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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
Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology	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
MorenoGarcía, JuanCarlos. The state in ancient Egypt: power, challenges and dynamics. xvi, 226 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £21.99 (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
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
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)	0
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster	0
Bandak, Andreas. Exemplary life: modelling sainthood in Christian Syria. 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2022. £23.99 (paper)	0
Sadana, Rashmi. The moving city: scenes from the Delhi Metro and the social life of infrastructure. viii, 251 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2022. £25.00 (paper)	0
New horizons in the study of jihad	0
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)	0
Oliphant, Elayne. The privilege of being banal: art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2021. £24.00 (paper)	0
Ethnography as bridge	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