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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Gatt, Caroline. An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2018. £120.00 (cloth)	27
Ikeya, Kazunobu (ed.). The spread of food cultures in Asia. 238 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2019.	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
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)	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
Wedeen, Lisa.Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria. xvi, 257 pp., figs, plates, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2019. £22.00 (paper)	10
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)	9
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
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan	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
Issue Information	6
Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies, and gigantism in fusion energy development	6
Powers of religion: an Interview with Simon Coleman	6
Schneider, Arnd (ed.). Art, anthropology, contested heritage: ethnographies of TRACES. 208 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. £100.00 (cloth)	6
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
Against interpretive exclusivism^*	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
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
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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
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
Towards atuwün wariache? Place‐making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city	4
Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana	4
Property as sovereigntyin micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem	4
From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values	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
Shokeid, Moshe. Can academics change the world? An Israeli anthropologist's testimony on the rise and fall of a protest movement on campus. xiv, 200 pp., illlus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn	4
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters	4
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: materializing value in culinary practice	4
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
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition	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
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
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
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
Dance religious convers(at)ions: post‐exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland	3
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society	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
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
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
Relations of dissent: politics, ethics, and the moral individual	2
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
Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans	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
The pleasures of ambiguity: pedagogy and musical apprenticeship in an Istanbul art studio	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
Neely, Abigail H.Reimagining social medicine from the South. xxi, 200 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £18.99 (paper)	2
‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long‐distance runners in Kenya	2
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
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
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
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
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
The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes	2
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru	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
Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective	2
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research	2
Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville	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
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Notes on contributors	1
Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)	1
Making home alive again after war: AcoliKaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda	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
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
Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration	1
Economy and ethics in the cosmic process^⋆	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
Bardsley, Jan. Maiko masquerade: crafting geisha girlhood in Japan. 300 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (e‐book)	1
Microbial turns	1
The reification of concrete work in Egyptian film production	1
‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis	1
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same‐sex attraction in Indonesia	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
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
Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness	1
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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
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
The unemployment business: profit, precarity, and the moral economy of social democracy in Norway	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
Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit	1
A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity	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
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
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
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
Berlant, Lauren & KathleenStewart.The hundreds. x, 173 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £18.99 (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
Crab antics: the moral and political economy of greed accusations in the submerging Sundarbans delta of India	1
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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
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector	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
Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review	1
Renne, Elisha P.Veils, turbans, and Islamic reform in northern Nigeria. xii, 251 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)	1
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
Desert travels in the Atacama: making place through movement (c. 2500‐1500 cal BP)	1
Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia	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
Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia	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
Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth)	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
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
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Disabling violence: intellectual disability and the limits of ethical engagement	1
Spiritual hair: dreadlocks and the bodies multiple in Rastafari	1
A statement from the incoming editor	1
The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China	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
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
Shange, Savannah. Progressive dystopia: abolition, antiblackness, + schooling in San Francisco. xiv, 212 pp., figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £19.99 (paper)	1
Loss of identity in nineteenth‐century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction	1
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
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
Mains, Daniel. Under construction: technologies of development in urban Ethiopia. xii, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper)	0
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deCesari, Chiara. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. xvi, 269 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2019. £20.99 (paper)	0
Waters, Thomas.Cursed Britain: a history of witchcraft and black magic in modern times. viii, 350 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,2019. £25.00 (cloth)	0
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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
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC‐EP	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
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
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
Books received	0
‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh	0
The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a/’hun: personhood, recognition, and the politics of knowability in the Kalahari	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
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages	0
The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia	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

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
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
Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery	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
Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, Elena (ed.). Refuge in a moving world: tracing refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines. 566 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. London: UCL Press, 2020. £30.00 (paper)	0
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina: Univ. of Regina, 2021. Open access	0
Ethnography as bridge	0
Covering the land with oil palm: revelation, value, and landownership among the Kairak‐speaking Baining of Papua New Guinea	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 gift of free money: on the indeterminacy of unconditional cash transfers in western Kenya	0
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Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster	0
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‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily	0
‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects	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
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
Razinsky, Hili. Ambivalence: a philosophical exploration. x, 283 pp., bibliogr. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. £85.00 (cloth)	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
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
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
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
Özden‐Schilling, Canay. The current economy: electricity markets and techno‐economics. 224 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper)	0
Duwe, Samuel & Robert W.Preucel (eds). The continuous path: Pueblo movement and the archaeology of becoming. xiv, 279 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 20	0
Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming apostles. xv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £79.50 (eBook)	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
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
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
Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits	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
Times of debt: heterochrony and bank loans in rural Mongolia	0
Afterword	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
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The familiar‐strange manifestation of the dead	0
Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland	0
Notes on contributors	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
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
Damaske, Sarah. The tolls of uncertainty: how privilege and the guilt gap shape unemployment in America. 336 pp., tables, bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2021. £22.00 (cloth)	0
Zeitlyn, David. An anthropological toolkit: sixty useful concepts. 150 pp., illus., bibliogr. New York: Berghahn, 2022. £9.99 (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
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Echolocation among the blind: an argument for an ontogenetic turn	0
Jensen, Casper Bruun & AtsuroMorita (eds). Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. viii, 161 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. £22.95 (paper)	0
Candea, Matei. Comparison in anthropology: the impossible method. xiv, 392 pp., figs, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper)	0
Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	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
Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe	0
The placing of care: ordinary ethics of mobility in the Sino‐Tibetan borderlands	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
Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women	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
Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology	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
Ghosts of a different present: spectres of possibility in the lives of older Kyrgyz Muslims	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
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