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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reciprocal exchange, value, and forms of transaction: an archaeological approach from the Atacama Desert (northern Chile)25
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)13
Daggett, Cara New. The birth of energy: fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)13
Barrios, Roberto E.Governing affect: neoliberalism and disaster reconstruction. xvi, 288 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2017. £25.99 (paper)12
Hinton, Alexander Laban. The justice façade: trials of transition in Cambodia. xx, 282 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2018. £29.49 (paper)10
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)10
Ballvé, Teo.The frontier effect: state formation and violence in Colombia. xvi, 228 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2020. £20.99 (paper)10
Chorev, Nitsan. Give and take: developmental foreign aid and the pharmaceutical industry in East Africa. xiv, 305 pp., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2019. £25.00 (paper)9
Books and films received8
Lino e Silva, Moisés. Minoritarian liberalism: a travesti life in a Brazilian favela. 240 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: University Press, 2022. $27.50 (paper)6
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway6
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)5
Faezi, Daniel Asadi (dir.). The absence of apricots. 49 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2018. £5.00 (VOD rental)5
Kim, Nam C. & MarcKissel.Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past. xv, 218 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £34.99 (paper)5
Issue Information5
Vilaça, Aparecida. Paletó and me: memories of my indigenous father. 218 pp., maps, illus. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £18.99 (paper)5
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access5
Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta. Institutionalised dreams: the art of managing foreign aid. 248 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)5
Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn5
From oasis to outlier: sugar beets, an endangered fish, and the moral economy4
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.4
Schnegg, Michael & Edward D.Lowe (eds). Comparing cultures: innovations in comparative ethnography. 234 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2020. £19.99 (paper)4
Moral failure: a jeremiad of the war on drugs in Guatemala4
Index4
Do schools build social movements? Education among Brazil's MST landless activists4
Gatt, Caroline. An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)4
Schmidt, Peter R. & Alice B.Kehoe (eds). Archaeologies of listening. viii, 293 pp., maps, illus., bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £109.00 (cloth)4
Sumich, Jason. The middle class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. xiv, 174 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £75.00 (cloth)3
Jones, Graham M. Magic's reason: an anthropology of analogy. x, 208 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2018. £19.00 (paper)3
Absence in technicolour: protesting enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka3
Levent, Nina & Irina D.Mihalache (eds). Food and museums. xiv, 368 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. £29.99 (paper)3
Books received or requested3
Adebanwi, Wale (ed.). The political economy of everyday life in Africa: beyond the margins. xviii, 364 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2017. £60.00 (clot3
Getrich, Christina M. Border brokers: children of Mexican immigrants navigating US society, laws, and politics. xvi, 253 pp., illus., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2019. £54.95 (cloth)3
Li, Geng. Fate calculation experts: diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China. vi, 151 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £89.00 (cloth)3
Feldman, Leah. On the threshold of Eurasia: revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus. xvi, 276 pp., illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018. £48.00 (cloth)3
Tuckett, Anna. Rules, paper, status: migrants and precarious bureaucracy in contemporary Italy. xiv, 178 pp., illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper)3
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)3
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)2
‘It's not my story to tell’: ownership and the politics of history in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique2
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)2
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)2
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)2
Watts, Laura.Energy at the end of the world: an Orkney Islands saga. xii, 419 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2018. £27.00 (cloth)2
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (paper)2
Notes on contributors2
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)2
An argument for sparsity2
Reed‐Danahay, Deborah. Bourdieu and social space: mobilities, trajectories, emplacements. viii, 161 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £89.00 (cloth)2
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)2
Appel, Hannah. The licit life of capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea. xii, 332 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £21.99 (paper)2
Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses2
Kujala, Antti & MirkkaDanielsbacka. Reciprocity in human societies: from ancient times to the modern welfare state. ix, 225 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. £54.99 (cloth)2
ArmytageRosita. Big capital in an unequal world: the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. x, 195 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)2
Kelly, William W. The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: professional baseball in modern Japan. xvi, 315 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £27.00 (paper)2
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)2
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)2
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis2
McGranahan, Carole (ed.). Writing anthropology: essays on craft and commitment. x, 309 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)2
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process⋆2
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. Impersonations: the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance. xvi, 225 pp., table, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019. £27.00 (paper)2
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)2
Irreconcilable times2
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)2
Horowitz, Rachel A. & Grant S.McCall (eds). Lithic technologies in sedentary societies. xvi, 253 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Louisville: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2019. £46.00 (clot2
McKillop, Heather.Maya salt works. xviii, 234 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2019. £99.95 (cloth)2
Habeck, Joachim Otto (ed.). Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian north. xx, 465 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2019. £25.95 (paper)2
Irreconciliation as practice: resisting impunity and closure in Argentina2
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)2
Kavedžija, Iza. Making meaningful lives: tales from an aging Japan. x, 196 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. £40.00 (cloth)2
Baiburin, Albert; trans. StephenDalziel. The Soviet passport: the history, nature and uses of the internal passport in the USSR. xviii, 451 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. £35.00 (clot2
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
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman1
How Malinowski sailed the Midnight Sun: the academic conference as ethnographic performance1
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh1
Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia1
Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)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
The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia1
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
The art of jieyuan: ethical affinity and the cultivation of Chinese Buddhist spirituality in Tanzania1
Stonington, Scott. The spirit ambulance: choreographing the end of life in Thailand. 208 pp., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £25.00 (paper)1
The wedding of two trees: connections, equivalences, and subjunctivity in a Tamil ritual1
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
Ross, Ann H. & EugéniaCunha (eds). Dismemberments: perspectives in forensic anthropology and legal medicine. 212 pp. London: Academic Press, 2019. £60.00 (cloth)1
Dialogues: anthropology and literature1
Thurner, Mark & JuanPimentel (eds). New World objects of knowledge: a cabinet of curiosities. xviii, 278 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. London: Univ. Press, 2021. Open access; £55.00 1
Anthro abuzz: fuel, electricity, and ethnography in the era of global boiling1
Buzalka, Juraj. The cultural economy of protest in post‐socialist European Union: village fascists and their rivals. 222 pp., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2020. £130.00 (cloth)1
Knight, Daniel M.Vertiginous life: an anthropology of time and the unforeseen. xiv, 163 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £89.00 (cloth)1
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity1
Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan1
The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands1
Books received1
Pettit, Harry. The labor of hope: meritocracy and precarity in Egypt. xii, 228 pp., illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2024. £23.99 (paper)1
Secularization and its ethical consequences: orthodox Israeli Jews sanctifying ‘mundane’ Buddhist meditation1
Survivals and the persistence of the past1
Self‐suasion: agents of Jewish conversion in Israel in search of religious sincerity1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China1
Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia1
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development1
Babar, Zahra (ed.). Mobility and forced displacement in the Middle East. 320 pp., bibliogrs. London: Hurst & Co., 2020. £25.00 (paper)1
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 (clot1
Rendering the absent visible: victimhood and the irreconcilability of violence1
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)1
Circulating in difference: performances of publicity on and beyond a Yangon train1
Oliphant, Elayne. The privilege of being banal: art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris. 280 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2021. £24.00 (paper)1
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan1
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)1
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery1
Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)1
Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics, and traces1
Art education under development in Palestine: de‐ and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice1
The death of Elizabeth II on Wikipedia: fleshing out freedom through technoliberal participation online1
Huhn, Arianna. Nourishing life: foodways and humanity in an African town. xviii, 216 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)1
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)1
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)1
Turner, Grace.Honoring ancestors in sacred space: the archaeology of an eighteenth‐century African‐Bahamian cemetery. x, 180 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Gainesville: Univ. Press of1
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 (1
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women1
Making home alive again after war: AcoliKaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda1
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)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
Timerendering: reflections on chronopolitical praxis in Bolivia1
‘Don't be so serious’: ethical play, Islam, and the transcendent1
Vaczi, Mariann & AlanBairner (eds). Indigenous, traditional, and folk sports: contesting modernities. 296 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2024. £38.99 (e‐book)0
Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy0
Tošic, Jelena & AndreasStreinzer (eds). Ethnographies of deservingness: unpacking ideologies of distribution and inequality. x, 437 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £107.00 0
Burke, Paul. An Australian Indigenous diaspora: Warlpiri matriarchs and the refashioning of tradition. x, 237 pp., maps, fig., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)0
INDEX to THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE0
Sopranzetti, Claudio, SaraFabbri & ChiaraNatalucci. The King of Bangkok. 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2021. £48.99 (cloth)0
The reification of concrete work in Egyptian film production0
Brumann, Christoph. The best we share: nation, culture and world‐making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena. xii, 303 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £100.00 (clo0
Craft in an age of creativity: disengagement as a new mode of craftsmanship among traditional potters in Japan0
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness0
Debray, Régis; trans. David Fernbach. Civilization: how we all became American. xii, 175 pp. London: Verso Books, 2019. £16.99 (cloth)0
Peletz, Michael G.Sharia transformations: cultural politics and the rebranding of an Islamic judiciary. xxi, 308 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £30.00 (paper)0
Lukács, Gabriella. Invisibility by design: women and labor in Japan's digital economy. xii, 236 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £19.99 (paper)0
Childs, Geoff & NamgyalChoedup.From a trickle to a torrent: education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal. xvi, 230 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oakland:0
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Sex and stature estimation on the tibia: a virtual pilot study on a contemporary Hispanic population0
Rottmann, Susan Beth. In pursuit of belonging: forging an ethical life in European‐Turkish spaces. xii, 203 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £99.00 (cloth)0
Regnier, Denis. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. 208 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2020. £85.00 (cloth)0
Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India0
Balthazar, Ana Carolina. Ethics and nationalist populism at the British seaside: negotiating character. 174 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £36.99 (e‐book)0
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)0
Grosby, Steven. Nations and nationalism in world history. 150 pp., bibliogr. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. £35.99 (paper)0
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)0
A chance encounter: making meaning from coincidence0
Salgó, Eszter.Images from paradise: the visual communication of the European Union's federalist utopia. viii, 239 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. £92.00 (cloth)0
Berger, Peter & SarbeswarSahoo (eds). Godroads: modalities of conversion in India. xii, 296 pp., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2020. £75.00 (cloth)0
State‐like and state dislike in the anthropological margins★0
vanWyk, Ilana & JimmyPieterse. Nationalism, politics and anthropology: a tale of two South Africans. 282 pp., bibliogr. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2022. £33.00 (paper)0
Bell, Lucy, AlexUngprateeb Flynn & PatrickO'Hare. Taking form, making worlds: cartonera publishers in Latin America. xx, 303 pp., plates, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2022. £40.0
Dewan, Camelia; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. xxvi, 224 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Seattle0
Family ideology: uneasy entanglements of eldercare in Germany0
Meiu, George Paul. Ethno‐erotic economies: sexuality, money, and belonging in Kenya. viii, 315 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2017. £26.00 (paper)0
Kaur, Raminder. Kudankulam: the story of an Indo‐Russian nuclear power plant. 392 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2020. £42.99 (cloth)0
Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology0
Koellner, Tobias (ed.). Family firms and business families in cross‐cultural perspective. xviii, 318 pp., bibliogrs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £37.99 (e‐book)0
Omura, Keiichi, Grant JunOtsuki, ShihoSatsuka & AtsuroMorita (eds). The world multiple: the quotidian politics of knowing and generating entangled worlds. xviii, 260 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London0
Bendix, Regina F. Culture and value: tourism, heritage, and property. vii, 279 pp., bibliogrs. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2018. £33.00 (paper)0
Goodale, Mark. Reinventing human rights. xii, 214 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2022. £21.99 (paper)0
The multiperspectival nature of place names: Ewenki mobility, river naming, and relationships with animals, spirits, and landscapes0
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Ellison, Susan Helen.Domesticating democracy: the politics of conflict resolution in Bolivia. xiv, 281 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper)0
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)0
Introduction: Forensic anthropology and interdisciplinarity0
Books received0
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 (pape0
Columb, Seán. Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation. 216 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)0
Demossier, Marion. Burgundy: a global anthropology of place and taste. x, 267 pp., map, fig., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £99.00 (cloth)0
Hüsken, Ute, VasudhaNarayanan & AstridZotter (eds). Nine nights of power: Durgā, dolls, and darbars. xiv, 294 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2021. £69.35 (cloth)0
Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)0
Hemmasi, Farzaneh. Tehrangeles dreaming: intimacy and imagination in southern California's Iranian pop music. 264 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)0
Doxiadis, Evdoxios & AimeePlacas (eds). Living under austerity: Greek society in crisis. xii, 362 pp., tables, figs, bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. £99.00 (cloth)0
Kuper, Adam. The Museum of Other People: from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions. 432 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Profile Books, 2023. £25.00 (cloth)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
Della Ratta, Donatella.Shooting a revolution: visual media and warfare in Syria. xiv, 251 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper)0
Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment0
The final voids: the ambiguity of emptiness in Australian coal mine rehabilitation0
Hetherington, Kregg. The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops. viii, 296 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £24.99 (paper)0
Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe0
Divorcing the dead, sharing with Others: negotiating alterity at the edges of a Malaysian rainforest0
Richardson, Eugene T.Epidemic illusions: on the coloniality of global public health. xxvi, 193 pp., tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. £22.00 (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
Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia0
Eltringham, Nigel. The anthropology of peace and reconciliation: pax humana. 176 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £34.99 (e‐book)0
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The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: house construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos0
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research0
Brothers, friends, and enemies: averting intimacy on Facebook in western India0
Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas0
Bandak, Andreas. Exemplary life: modelling sainthood in Christian Syria. 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2022. £23.99 (paper)0
Sovereignty at what price? Existential displacement at the Lebanese/Syrian border0
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Fassin, Didier; trans. Rachel Gomme. Death of a Traveller: a counter‐investigation. 160 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. £15.99 (paper)0
Straube, Christian. After corporate paternalism: material renovation and social change in times of ruination. xvi, 149 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £89.00 (clot0
Harvey, Penny, ChristianKrohn‐Hansen & Knut G.Nustad (eds). Anthropos and the material. viii, 261 pp., tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)0
Berhane‐Selassie, Tsehai. Ethiopian warriorhood: defence, land and society 1800‐1941. xxvi, 309 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2018. £60.00 (cloth)0
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