Earlier Articles

October 2011
Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State by John R. Bowen Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism by Cihan Tuǧal
October 2011
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary by Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters by David A. Westbrook
October 2011
Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes by Peter Gose
November 2011
Across the interface of state ethnography: Rethinking ethnology and its subjects in multicultural India
November 2011
Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism: A study in the political theology of the neighbor
November 2011
Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence
November 2011
Daydreaming, intimacy, and the intersubjective third in fieldwork encounters in Syria
November 2011
Digital distrust: Uzbek cynicism and solidarity in the Internet Age
November 2011
Eating local in a U.S. city: Reconstructing “community”—a third place—in a global neoliberal economy
November 2011
Foucault in the forest: Questioning environmentality in Amazonia
November 2011
Indigenizing the city and the future of Maori culture: The construction of community in Auckland as representation, experience, and self-making
November 2011
Iterations of lament: Anachronism and affect in a Shi‘i Islamic revival in Turkey
November 2011
Melancholia and anthropology
November 2011
Migration and paraethnography in Honduras
November 2011
Pueblo street fighting to national martial art: Nation building and the nationalization of a Venezuelan civilian combative practice
November 2011
Purity, danger, and redemption: Notes on urban missional evangelicals
November 2011
Sketching knowledge: Quandaries in the mimetic reproduction of Pueblo ritual
November 2011
The interrupted sacrifice: Hegemony and moral crisis among Israeli conscientious objectors
November 2011
The remaking of Lake Sakakawea: Locating cultural viability in negative heritage on the Missouri River
November 2011
“You’re my friend today, but not tomorrow”: Learning to be friends among young U.S. middle-class children
November 2011
An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race by Heather Merrill
November 2011
Bedouin “abjection”: World heritage, worldliness, and worthiness at the margins of Arabia
November 2011
Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras by Mark Anderson
November 2011
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS by Frederick Klaits
November 2011
Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador
November 2011
Embryo adoption: Emergent forms of siblingship among Snowflakes® families
November 2011
Islam in South Asia in Practice edited by Barbara D. Metcalf
November 2011
Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng
November 2011
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung: Food, Fatness, and Well-Being over the Life-Span by Nancy Howell
November 2011
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V. Beyer
November 2011
Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap by C. Jason Throop
November 2011
The Anthropology of Labor Unions edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah S. Reichart
November 2011
The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
November 2011
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul Shankman
November 2011
Titanic tales of missing men: Reconfigurations of national identity and gendered presence in Dakar, Senegal
November 2011
Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925–2006 by Hy Van Luong
November 2011
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform by Enrique Mayer
November 2011
When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects by Adriana Petryna
November 2011
A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont by Marc Boglioli
November 2011
Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
November 2011
Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller, eds.
November 2011
Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law by Richard Hyland
November 2011
Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed
November 2011
Love in Africa. Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas, eds.
November 2011
One People, One Blood: Ethiopians-Israelis and the Return to Judaism by Don Seeman
November 2011
The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor by Grace Kyungwon Hong
November 2011
Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling. Arne Kalland.
November 2011
City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala. Kevin Lewis O’Neill.
November 2011
Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution. Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb.
November 2011
Dangerous Citizens, the Greek Left and the Terror of the State. Neni Panourgiá.
November 2011
Embodying emergent masculinities: Men engaging with reproductive and sexual health technologies in the Middle East and Mexico
November 2011
Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability. Nina L. Etkin.
November 2011
Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War. Antonius C. G. M. Robben, ed.
November 2011
Living Terraces of Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture and Development. Elizabeth E. Watson.
November 2011
Media and Middle Class Moms: Images and Realities of Work and Family. Lara Descartes and Conrad P. Kottak.
November 2011
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development. Daromir Rudnyckyj.
November 2011
The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece. Yannis Hamilakis.
November 2011
The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe. Peter Geschiere.
November 2011
The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis. Henrietta Moore.
November 2011
Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation. Sarah D. Phillips.
November 2011
AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa. Ida Susser.
November 2011
Apocalyptic futures: The violent transformation of moral human life among Ayoreo-speaking people of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco
November 2011
Are births just “women’s business”? Gift exchange, value, and global volatility in Muslim Senegal
November 2011
Cameroonian bushfalling: Negotiation of identity and belonging in fiction and ethnography
November 2011
Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border. David Spener.
November 2011
CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting. Barry F. Saunders.
November 2011
Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez. Howard Campbell.
November 2011
Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water. Veronica Strang.
November 2011
Guns and guitars: Simulating sovereignty in a state of siege
November 2011
How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts. Günter Schlee.
November 2011
Indian and lesbian and what came next: Affect, commensuration, and queer emergences
November 2011
Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-Going after Stalin. Sudha Rajagopalan.
November 2011
Melted gold and national bodies: The hermeneutics of depth and the value of history in Brazilian racial politics
November 2011
Mobility, liminality, and embodiment in urban Egypt
November 2011
Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire. Lynne A. Haney.
November 2011
Organic intellectuals, crossing scales, and the emergence of social movements with respect to AIDS in South Africa
November 2011
Pentecostal dreaming and technologies of governmentality in a Melanesian society
November 2011
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen. Lisa Wedeen.
November 2011
Rewriting the past and reimagining the future: The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry
November 2011
Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits. Joana Breidenbach and Pál Nyíri.
November 2011
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounter in Amazonia. Aparecida Vilaça. David Rodgers, trans.
November 2011
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. Paul Henley.
November 2011
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Douglas Rogers.
November 2011
TurboConsumers™ in paradise: Tourism, civil rights, and Brazil’s gay sex industry
November 2011
War and Memory in Lebanon. Sune Haugbolle.
November 2011
Quoting Mario Juruna: Linguistic imagery and the transformation of indigenous voice in the Brazilian print press
November 2011
Corruption as power: Caste and the political imagination of the postcolonial state
November 2011
Internal transmigrants: A Dagomba diaspora
November 2011
Kinship as gift and theft: Acts of succession in Mayotte and Israel
November 2011
On Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement
November 2011
Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai
November 2011
Place markers: Tracking spatiality in Brazilian hip-hop and community radio
November 2011
Resistance or inaction? Protecting ayurvedic medical knowledge and problems of agency
November 2011
Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan Ore, Temporal Dispossession, and “Movement” in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
November 2011
The social life of a “free” gift
November 2011
Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència
November 2011
What is the impact of transnational migration on family life? Women's comparisons of internal and international migration in a small town in Ghana
November 2011
“Hummus is best when it is fresh and made by Arabs”: The gourmetization of hummus in Israel and the return of the repressed Arab
January 2012
A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún. M. Bianet Castellanos.
January 2012
Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Eleana J. Kim.
January 2012
Airborn Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways. Christine Yano.
January 2012
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain. Andrew M. Gardner.
January 2012
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru. Shane Greene.
January 2012
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism. Mark Goodale.
January 2012
Direct Action: An Ethnography. David Graeber.
January 2012
Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination. Amira Mittermaier.
January 2012
Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa. Amy Stambach.
January 2012
Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. Evelyn Blackwood.
January 2012
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Katrina Karkazis.
January 2012
Itineraries of Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Politics of Tourism. Rebecca Stein.
January 2012
Justice without Government: Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev. Clinton Bailey.
January 2012
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast. Jan Hoffman French.
January 2012
Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India. Ritty A. Lukose.
January 2012
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa. Mark Hunter.
January 2012
Making Their Place: Feminism after Socialism in Eastern Germany. Katja M. Guenther.
January 2012
Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction. Keisha Fikes.
January 2012
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. Charles Piot.
January 2012
Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign. Ken Hillis.
January 2012
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. Mary Gray.
January 2012
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent. Lisa M. Hoffman.
January 2012
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-Cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen. Flagg Miller.
January 2012
The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories. Florence E. Babb.
January 2012
Transnational Families, Migration, and Gender: Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona. Elisabetta Zontini.
January 2012
Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. Tracey Heatherington.
January 2012
Angels in Swindon: Public religion and ambient faith in England
January 2012
Beyond Secular and Religious: An intellectual genealogy of Tahrir Square
January 2012
“Dividing the Poor”: State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China
January 2012
Living the “Revolution” in an Egyptian Village
January 2012
Meanings and Feelings: Local interpretations of the use of violence in the Egyptian revolution
January 2012
No Longer a Bargain: Women, masculinity, and the Egyptian uprising
January 2012
Reflections on Secularism, Democracy, and Politics in Egypt
January 2012
Running Amok or Just Sleeping Rough? Long-grass camping and the politics of care in northern Australia
January 2012
Sectarian Conflict and Family Law in Contemporary Egypt
January 2012
Soviet Science and Post-Soviet Faith: Etigelov’s imperishable body
January 2012
Strength and Vulnerability after Egypt’s Arab Spring Uprisings
January 2012
The Egyptian Revolution: A Triumph of Poetry
January 2012
The Judge as Tragic Tero: Judicial ethics in Lebanon’s shari‘a courts
January 2012
The Politics of Wire Service Photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom
January 2012
The Privilege of Revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt
January 2012
Transgenic-free Territories in Costa Rica: Networks, place, and the politics of life
January 2012
Woven Worlds: Material things, bureaucratization, and dilemmas of caregiving in Lutheran humanitarianism
January 2012
Theorizing Wisconsin’s 2011 Protests: Community-based unionism confronts accumulation by dispossession
May 2012
Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. Karen Dubinsky.
May 2012
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. Stacey A. Langwick.
May 2012
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Miriam Ticktin.
May 2012
Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements
May 2012
Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Identity and Development Politics in Latin America. Monica C. DeHart.
May 2012
Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Johannes Fabian.
May 2012
Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights. Dorothy L. Hodgson.
May 2012
Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. M. Laetitia Cairoli.
May 2012
“God made beautiful things”: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school
May 2012
Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. Alyshia Gálvez.
May 2012
Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space. David A. B. Murray, ed.
May 2012
I’m neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. Patricia Zavella.
May 2012
Islam, Politics, Anthropology. Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares, eds.
May 2012
Language and the frontiers of the human: Aymara animal-oriented interjections and the mediation of mind
May 2012
Life among the Anthros and Other Essays. Clifford Geertz.
May 2012
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS. Deborah B. Gould.
May 2012
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Bonnie A. Nardi.
May 2012
NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders’ perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 2012
Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. Pier Larson.
May 2012
One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
May 2012
Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement. Christa Craven.
May 2012
Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Diane Nelson.
May 2012
Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation
May 2012
Rhizomes and other uncountables: The malaise of enumeration in Mexico’s Colorado River Delta
May 2012
Rite of passing: Bureaucratic encounters, dramaturgy, and Jewish conversion in Israel
May 2012
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel. Juliana Ochs.
May 2012
Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar. Jennifer Cole.
May 2012
Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Roger N. Lancaster.
May 2012
The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. Lauren Derby.
May 2012
The Green Revolution’s ghost: Unruly subjects of participatory development in rural Indonesia
May 2012
The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals. Vincent Crapanzano.
May 2012
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. Miliann Kang.
May 2012
The materiality of the corporation: Oil, gas, and corporate social technologies in the remaking of a Russian region
May 2012
The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
May 2012
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation: Privatization and social welfare in northern Tanzania
May 2012
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. Kate Ramsey.
May 2012
“The world is a forest of symbols”: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion
May 2012
Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement. Tulasi Srinivas.
July 2012
Accidents of equity and the aesthetics of Chinese offshore incorporation
July 2012
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally. Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner, eds.
July 2012
Commentary: Biopolitical injustice and contemporary capitalism
July 2012
Configuring the authentic value of real food: Farm-to-fork, snout-to-tail, and local food movements
July 2012
Conversion, continuity, and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo
July 2012
Creating model consumers: Producing ethnicity, race, and class in Asian American advertising
July 2012
Cultured States: Youth,Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Andrew Ivaska.
July 2012
Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility. Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci.
July 2012
Documentary disorders: Managing medical multiplicity in Maputo, Mozambique
July 2012
Ethnographic Sorcery. Harry G. West.
July 2012
Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany. Andrew Bickford.
July 2012
Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town. Steffen Jensen.
July 2012
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness. Nitasha Tamar Sharma.
July 2012
Insectopedia. Hugh Raffles.
July 2012
Isma‘ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community. Jonah Steinberg.
July 2012
Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus. Susan E. Chase.
July 2012
Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township. Erik Bähre.
July 2012
New Organ within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy. Aslihan Sanal.
July 2012
Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action. Michael Lambek, ed.
July 2012
Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.Michael Goddard.
July 2012
Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld. Kenneth M. George.
July 2012
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. Alexander Edmonds.
July 2012
Recreating Japanese Men. Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, eds.
July 2012
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. Michelle H. Raheja.
July 2012
Shari‘a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World. Robert W. Hefner, ed.
July 2012
Social Anthropology and Human Origins. Alan Barnard.
July 2012
The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees
July 2012
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. Gail Hershatter.
July 2012
The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. Carol J.Greenhouse.
July 2012
The psychic life of biopolitics: Survival, cooperation, and Inuit community
July 2012
The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York. Jonathan R. Wynn.
July 2012
Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. Olga M. González.
July 2012
¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba. Jafari S. Allen.
July 2012
Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism. Michael Largey.
July 2012
Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat
November 2012
Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile. Magnus Course.
November 2012
Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy. Edith Turner.
November 2012
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea. Paige West.
November 2012
Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Anne M. Rademacher.
November 2012
Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. David H. Price.
November 2012
Beauty as control in the new Saigon: Eviction, new urban zones, and atomized dissent in a Southeast Asian city
November 2012
Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico. Debra Lattanzi Shutika.
November 2012
Commentary: The corporation, oil, and the financialization of risk
November 2012
Commentary: What affect produces
November 2012
“Corn is food, not contraband”: The right to “free trade” at the Mexico–Guatemala border
November 2012
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. Susan Greenhalgh.
November 2012
Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow, eds.
November 2012
Fighting like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld.
November 2012
Finding Grace in the Concert Hall: Community and Meaning among Springsteen Fans. Linda K. Randall.
November 2012
“Good individualism”? Psychology, ethics, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Russia
November 2012
Grown folks radio: U.S. election politics and a “hidden” black counterpublic
November 2012
In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility. Dinah Rajak.
November 2012
In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. Li Zhang.
November 2012
Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya. Elliot Fratkin.
November 2012
Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill.
November 2012
Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria. Gerald W. Creed.
November 2012
Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London. Maritsa Poros.
November 2012
Naming chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults
November 2012
Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke, eds.
November 2012
Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine. Carole H. Browner and H. Mabel Preloran.
November 2012
News media and contention over “the local” in urban India
November 2012
Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness in Contemporary Africa. Sandra Evers, Catrien Notermans, and Erik van Ommering, eds.
November 2012
Offshore work: Oil, modularity, and the how of capitalism in Equatorial Guinea
November 2012
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Elaine A. Peña.
November 2012
Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam. Kirsten W. Endres.
November 2012
Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center
November 2012
So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Patrick Anderson.
November 2012
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness. E. Paul Durrenberger, ed.
November 2012
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Roberto Abadie.
November 2012
“This is our little hajj”: Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia
November 2012
Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994. Donald L. Donham. Santu Mofokeng, photographs.
November 2012
Writing against identity politics: An essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain
February 2013
A cultural geometry: Designing political things in Sweden
February 2013
A pilgrimage to Arawān: Religious legitimacy, status, and ownership in Timbuktu
February 2013
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean. Ian Whitmarsh.
February 2013
Bird flu biopower: Strategies for multispecies coexistence in Việt Nam
February 2013
Braided Worlds. Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham.
February 2013
Commentary: Eyes wide shut in transnational science and aid
February 2013
Commentary: Keywords as literacy practice in the history of anthropological theory
February 2013
Confessional pluralism and the civil society effect: Liberal mediations of Islam and secularism in contemporary Turkey
February 2013
Crafting the Indian: Knowledge, Desire and Play in Indianist Reenactment. Petra Tjitske Kalshoven.
February 2013
Cruising through uncertainty: Cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique
February 2013
Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi. Erica Bornstein.
February 2013
Editor’s foreword: AE’s keywords by decade
February 2013
Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain
February 2013
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Andrew Shryock, ed.
February 2013
Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile. Clara Han.
February 2013
Live in Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Alex Perullo.
February 2013
Living dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia
February 2013
Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism. Kristen Ghodsee.
February 2013
Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea. Caren Freeman.
February 2013
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality. Michael J. Montoya.
February 2013
On love: Remaking moral subjectivity in postrehabilitation Russia
February 2013
Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World. Vanessa L. Fong.
February 2013
Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry. Tejaswini Ganti.
February 2013
Proxy citizenship and transnational advocacy: Colombian activists from Putumayo to Washington, DC
February 2013
Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge
February 2013
Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb. Jennifer A. Selby.
February 2013
Ten Thousand Things. Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang.
February 2013
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation. Christina Schwenkel.
February 2013
The bodily threat of miracles: Security, sacramentality, and the Egyptian politics of public order
February 2013
The Challenge of Epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives. Christina Toren and João de Pina-Cabral, eds.
February 2013
The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. Andrea Muehlebach.
February 2013
The Nature and Culture of Rattan: Reflections on Vanishing Life in the Forests of Southeast Asia. Stephen F. Siebert.
February 2013
“To put men in a bottle”: Eroticism, kinship, female power, and transactional sex in Maputo, Mozambique
February 2013
Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism among Urban Pakistani Women. Sadaf Ahmad.
February 2013
Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. Cathy A. Small.
February 2013
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging. David McDermott Hughes.
May 2013
Bureaucratic aesthetics: Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie
May 2013
Editor’s foreword
May 2013
Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls’ struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness
May 2013
Financialization and the capitalist moment: Marx versus Weber in the anthropology of global systems
May 2013
Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power. Eben Kirksey.
May 2013
Friends and money: Balancing affection and reciprocity among young men in urban Ethiopia
May 2013
Globalization as a discourse of hegemonic crisis: A global systemic analysis
May 2013
God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Elizabeth F. S. Roberts.
May 2013
Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working-Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe. Don Kalb and Gábor Halmai, eds.
May 2013
Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia. Daniel Mains.
May 2013
Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy: Mobbing,Well-Being, and the Workplace. Noelle J. Molé.
May 2013
Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters. Bob W. White, ed.
May 2013
Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. Donald Martin Carter.
May 2013
Please forget democracy and justice: Eritrean politics and the powers of humor
May 2013
Political Crime and the Memory of Loss. John Borneman.
May 2013
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Richard Price.
May 2013
Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Mwenda Ntarangwi.
May 2013
Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography. Katharina Schneider.
May 2013
Simply the best: Parody and political sincerity in Iceland
May 2013
State of play: The political ontology of sport in Amazonian Peru
May 2013
The banana emperor: D. Pedro II in Brazilian caricatures, 1842–89
May 2013
The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity. Peter Metcalf.
May 2013
The local-food movement and the anthropology of global systems
May 2013
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity. Yael Navaro-Yashin.
May 2013
The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey. Paul Stoller.
May 2013
The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
May 2013
The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. Vasiliki P. Neofotistos.
May 2013
The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Danny Hoffman.
May 2013
Transnational circulation and digital fatigue in Ghana’s Azonto dance craze
May 2013
Trusted puppets, tarnished politicians: Humor and cynicism in Berlusconi’s Italy
August 2013
Accounting for silence: Inheritance, debt, and the moral economy of legal redress in China and Japan
August 2013
Caring for the “Holy Land”: Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel. Claudia Liebelt.
August 2013
Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico. Laura A. Lewis.
August 2013
Clean fake: Authenticating documents and persons in migrant Moscow
August 2013
Economies of Recycling: The Global Transformation of Materials, Values, and Social Relations. Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno, eds.
August 2013
Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. James Carrier and Peter Luetchford, eds.
August 2013
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T. L. Taylor.
August 2013
Faith in Paper: The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties. Charles E. Cleland, with Bruce R. Greene, Marc Slonim, Nancy N. Cleland, Kathryn L. Tierney, Skip Durocher, and Brian Pierson.
August 2013
Governing How We Care: Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs. Susan J. Shaw.
August 2013
Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. Matthew Hull.
August 2013
Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay. Kregg Hetherington.
August 2013
Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject. Héléne Mialet.
August 2013
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil. Kelly E. Hayes.
August 2013
How to do things to children with words: Language, ritual, and apocalypse in pediatric HIV treatment in Botswana
August 2013
Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio. Harri Englund.
August 2013
Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany. Damani J. Partridge.
August 2013
Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. Julie Livingston.
August 2013
Life within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want. Michael D. Jackson.
August 2013
Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. Naveeda Khan.
August 2013
Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos. Sarinda Singh.
August 2013
No Family Is an Island: Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora. Ilana Gershon.
August 2013
On Christianity and ethics: Rupture as ethical practice in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
August 2013
Reckoning with press freedom: Community media, liberalism, and the processual state in Caracas, Venezuela
August 2013
Recovering debts: Microfinance loan officers and the work of “proxy-creditors” in India
August 2013
Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans,White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship. Kristi Brian.
August 2013
Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post- Soviet Cuba. P. Sean Brotherton.
August 2013
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men. Carlos Ulises Decena.
August 2013
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Margot Weiss.
August 2013
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options.Walter D. Mignolo.
August 2013
The judicialization of biopolitics: Claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts
August 2013
The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal. Orin Starn.
August 2013
The photographer’s body: Populism, polarization, and the uses of victimhood in Venezuela
August 2013
The poetics of village space when villages are new: Settlement form as history making in Papua, Indonesia
August 2013
The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process
August 2013
The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity. Heather Levi.
August 2013
Transforming Cape Town. Catherine Besteman.
August 2013
Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea. Rachael Miyung Joo.
August 2013
Wall Street Women. Melissa S. Fisher.
November 2013
American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation across the Centuries. Pauline Turner Strong.
November 2013
Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory. Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, eds.
November 2013
Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece. Elisabeth Anne Davis.
November 2013
Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ronda L. Brulotte.
November 2013
Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation. Jean Dennison.
November 2013
Confronting uncertainty: Anthropology and zones of the extraordinary
November 2013
Crossing Mexico: Structural violence and the commodification of undocumented Central American migrants
November 2013
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti. Erica C. James.
November 2013
Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan. Jolyon Baraka Thomas.
November 2013
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. Joseph Dumit.
November 2013
Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda. Jennie E. Burnet.
November 2013
Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey. Christopher Dole.
November 2013
Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain. Susana Narotzky and Gavin Smith.
November 2013
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience: The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990. C. Timothy McKeown.
November 2013
Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan. Michelle Bigenho.
November 2013
“It seemed like a punishment”: Teacher transfers, hollow nationalism, and the intimate state in Eritrea
November 2013
Let us make God our banker: Ethics, temporality, and agency in a Ugandan charity home
November 2013
Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes. Emma Cervone.
November 2013
Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
November 2013
Managing the margins: MBA training, international business, and “the value chain of culture”
November 2013
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures. Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, eds.
November 2013
Performing Place, Practicing Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State. Rosita Henry.
November 2013
Polluted money, polluted wealth: Emerging regimes of value in the Mongolian gold rush
November 2013
Religious cosmopolitanisms: Media, transnational Santería, and travel between the United States and Cuba
November 2013
Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa. James McDougall and Judith Scheele, eds.
November 2013
Senses of care: Embodying inequality and sustaining personhood in the home care of older adults in Chicago
November 2013
Sociable robots, jazz music, and divination: Contingency as a cultural resource for negotiating problems of intentionality
November 2013
Stealing Shining Rivers: Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic and Conservation in a Mexican Forest. Molly Doane.
November 2013
Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community. Ray Cashman.
November 2013
The hybrid state: Crime and citizenship in urban Jamaica
November 2013
The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor and Policymaking in the European Union. Gregory Feldman.
November 2013
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande. Angela Garcia.
November 2013
The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt. Samuli Schielke.
November 2013
Trading fours: Creativity, analogy, and exchange
November 2013
Troubling kinship: Sacred marriage and gender configuration in South India
November 2013
Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh. Morgan Y. Liu.
January 2014
Virtual Issue: In/visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013
February 2014
Prize-Winning AE Articles
February 2014
A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics. Michael Cepek.
February 2014
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War. Carole McGranahan.
February 2014
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes. Joanne Rappaport and Tom Cummins.
February 2014
Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War. Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz.
February 2014
Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji
February 2014
Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy. Jennifer Burrell and Ellen Moodie, eds.
February 2014
Commentary on Andrew Orta’s “Managing the Margins”: The anthropology of transnational capitalism, neoliberalism, and risk
February 2014
Commentary: Response to Karen Ho on cultures of capitalism, contexts of capitalism
February 2014
Culinary Capital. Peter Naccarato and Kathleen LeBesco.
February 2014
Detecting research patterns and paratextual features in AE word clouds, keywords, and titles
February 2014
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. Charles Stewart.
February 2014
Economy in practice: Islamic finance and the problem of market reason
February 2014
Ethnography at its edges: Introduction to new AE book review essay series
February 2014
Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination. Katherine Swancutt.
February 2014
Gendered Scenarios of Revolution: Making New Men and New Women in Nicaragua, 1975–2000. Rosario Montoya.
February 2014
Housewives of Japan: An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni.
February 2014
In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies: Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social. Maurice Bloch.
February 2014
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Alpa Shah.
February 2014
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru. Kimberly Theidon.
February 2014
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives. Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne, eds.
February 2014
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color. Nina G. Jablonski.
February 2014
Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas. Heidi Moksnes.
February 2014
Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality. Kevin K. Birth.
February 2014
On ambivalent nativism: Hegemony, photography and “recalcitrant alterity” in Sphakia, Crete
February 2014
On the monopoly: Speculation, pharmaceutical markets, and intellectual property law in Nigeria
February 2014
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec, eds.
February 2014
Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland. Longina Jakubowska.
February 2014
Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar. Jennifer Jackson.
February 2014
Provisional agency in India: Jugaad and legitimation of corruption
February 2014
Public things, excremental politics, and the infrastructure of bare life in Ghana’s city of Tema
February 2014
Reclaiming Basque: Language, Nation, and Cultural Activism. Jacqueline Urla.
February 2014
Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context. Robin Maria DeLugan.
February 2014
Self–Othering: Stories about Serbia from externalized Belgrade insiders
February 2014
Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Khaled Furani.
February 2014
Standardized forms of Vietnamese selfhood: An ethnographic genealogy of documentation
February 2014
Stories of poverty in India: An ethnographer reviews Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers
February 2014
Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict
February 2014
The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing. Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia.
February 2014
The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.
February 2014
Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy. Leigh Binford.
February 2014
True life, real lives: Revisiting the boundaries between ethnography and fiction
February 2014
Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Are Knudsen.
March 2014
AE 2013 Top Downloads
April 2014
Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. David Mosse, ed.
April 2014
Brazilian Food: Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines. Jane Fajans.
April 2014
Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh. Lotte Hoek.
April 2014
Hostile remixes on YouTube: A new constraint on pro-FARC counterpublics
April 2014
Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. Gabriele Schwab.
April 2014
Installing the insider “outside”: House reconstruction and the transformation of binary ideologies in independent Timor-Leste
April 2014
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places. Erica T. Lehrer.
April 2014
Mayan imaginaries of democracy: Interactive sovereignties and political affect in postrevolutionary Guatemala
April 2014
Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa. Thomas Blom Hansen.
April 2014
Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land. Nicole Fabricant.
April 2014
National Days and the Politics of Indigenous and Local Identities in Australia and New Zealand. Patrick A. McAllister.
April 2014
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Nicolas Langlitz.
April 2014
Ownership and Appropriation. Veronica Strang and Mark Busse, eds.
April 2014
Performing dignity: Human rights, citizenship, and the techno-politics of law in South Africa
April 2014
Remitting wealth, reciprocating health? The “travel” of the land from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal
April 2014
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War. Peter Mandler.
April 2014
“The collective circle”: Latino immigrant musicians and politics in Charlotte, North Carolina
April 2014
The Contested Floodplain: Institutional Change of the Commons in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Tobias Haller.
April 2014
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Jemima Pierre.
April 2014
The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions. Alma Gottlieb, ed.
April 2014
The télèphone malgache: Transnational gossip and social transformation among Malagasy marriage migrants in France
April 2014
The U.S. car colossus and the production of inequality
April 2014
Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia. Harry Walker.
April 2014
Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identity in Brazil. André Cicalo.
April 2014
Urban mosquitoes, situational publics, and the pursuit of interspecies separation in Dar es Salaam
April 2014
When infrastructures attack: The workings of disrepair in China
April 2014
Note from the Editor
July 2014
Ontology in AE, 1985-2014
August 2014
A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea. Michael French Smith.
August 2014
Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach. Myron Aronoff and Jan Kubik.
August 2014
Beyond compassion: Islamic voluntarism in Egypt
August 2014
Cashinahua perspectives on functional anatomy: Ontology, ontogenesis, and biomedical education in Amazonia
August 2014
Cutting bella figura: Irony, crisis, and secondhand clothes in South Italy
August 2014
Demands of the Day: On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry. Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis.
August 2014
Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops. Chaia Heller.
August 2014
“Fraternal” nations and challenges to sovereignty in Ukraine: The politics of linguistic and religious ties
August 2014
Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress. Fida J. Adely.
August 2014
God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. Matthew Engelke.
August 2014
I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Catherine E. Bolten.
August 2014
Infrastructure and interpretation: Meters, dams, and state imagination in Scotland and India
August 2014
Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast. Lisa Breglia.
August 2014
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. S. Lochlann Jain.
August 2014
Of power and laughter: Carnivalesque politics and moral citizenship in Lithuania
August 2014
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
August 2014
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific. Christine R. Yano.
August 2014
Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-Local Identities in Bosnian War-Torn Communities. Hariz Halilovich.
August 2014
Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia. Catherine Allerton.
August 2014
Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany. Stefan Sperling.
August 2014
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Khiara M. Bridges.
August 2014
Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina. Elana Shever.
August 2014
Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Erica Lorraine Williams.
August 2014
Some not-so-hidden injuries of class: Authoethnographies of U.S. social mobility
August 2014
Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast. Kristin L. Dowell.
August 2014
The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion. Stephan Palmié.
August 2014
The empire strikes back: War without war and occupation without occupation in the Russian sphere of influence
August 2014
The interpretation of lives or life as interpretation: Cohabiting with spirits in the Malagasy world
August 2014
The Neo-Indians: A Religion for the Third Millennium. Jacques Galinier and Antoinette Molinié. Lucy Lyall Grant, trans.
August 2014
The social unit of debt: Gender and creditworthiness in Paraguayan microfinance
August 2014
The Specter of “The People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China. Mun Young Cho.
August 2014
The strength of badenya ties: Siblings and social security in old age–the case of urban Burkina Faso
August 2014
The Women’s Squad in Ukraine’s protests: Feminism, nationalism, and militarism on the Maidan
August 2014
Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden. David Picard.
August 2014
Toxic uncertainties of a nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir
August 2014
Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing. Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds.
August 2014
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, eds.
August 2014
Ethnography At Its Edges
September 2014
Ontology in American Ethnologist, 1980-2014
November 2014
Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. Timothy de Waal Malefyt and Robert J.Morais.
November 2014
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich. John Osburg.
November 2014
Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics. Amahl A. Bishara.
November 2014
Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice. Christine Ward Gailey.
November 2014
Bureaucratic gifts: Religious conversion, change, and exchange in Israel
November 2014
Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas. Arlene Dávila.
June 2014
Ukraine Crisis: AE Forum, August 2014
November 2014
Digital Anthropology. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, eds.
November 2014
Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes.
November 2014
Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone Industry. Lawrence Babb.
November 2014
Farming the South African “Bush”: Ecologies of belonging and exclusion in rooibos tea
November 2014
Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Christa Craven and Dána-Ain Davis, eds.
November 2014
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist, eds.
November 2014
Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados. David Murray.
November 2014
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Seth M. Holmes.
November 2014
History’s remainders: On time and objects after conflict in Cyprus
November 2014
How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999. Carlos Ivàn Degregori; Steve J. Stern, ed. Nancy Applebaum, Joanna Drzewieniecki, Héctor Flores, Eric Hershberg, Judy Rein, Steve J. Stern, and Kimberly Theidon, trans.
November 2014
How I learned to channel: Epistemology, phenomenology, and practice in a New Age course
November 2014
Irish/ness Is All around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland. Olaf Zenker.
November 2014
Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua. Danilyn Rutherford.
November 2014
Modern meetings: Participation, democracy, and language ideology in Brazil’s MST landless movement
November 2014
Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration. Susan Ossman.
November 2014
My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century. Alisse Waterston.
November 2014
Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina. Javier Auyero.
November 2014
Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology and Surveillance. Catarina Frois.
November 2014
Precarious Japan. Anne Allison.
November 2014
Prime-time politics: News, parody, and fictional credibility in Chile
November 2014
Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. Anya Bernstein.
November 2014
Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia. Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota, eds.
November 2014
The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy.
November 2014
The Indigenous Space: Marginalized Peoples and the United Nations. Jens Dahl.
November 2014
The long count of historical memory: Ixhil Maya ceremonial speech in Guatemala
November 2014
The paradoxical victim: Intimate violence narratives on trial in Italy
November 2014
The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. Karel Plessini.
November 2014
The potency of indigenous “bibles” and biographies: Mapuche shamanic literacy and historical consciousness
November 2014
The Social Life of Achievement. Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore, eds.
November 2014
The Social Life of Spirits. Ruy Blanes and Diana Espírito Santo, eds.
November 2014
The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom. James Laidlaw.
November 2014
Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia. Christopher R. Duncan.
November 2014
Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa. Isak Niehaus.
November 2014
“You can’t buy a vote”: Meanings of money in a Mumbai election
January 2015
#Ferguson Supplement: Background Readings on Ferguson, Missouri
November 2014
#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States
January 2015
AE 2014 Top Downloads
February 2015
A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India. Vibha Joshi.
February 2015
A tale of two courts: Judicial transformation and the rise of a corporate Islamic governmentality in Malaysia
February 2015
African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster, eds.
February 2015
An Anthropology of Architecture. Victor Buchli.
February 2015
Anthropology and the inchoate intimacies of power
February 2015
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship. Sarah Franklin.
February 2015
Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David W. Sabean and Simon Teuscher eds.
February 2015
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. David N. Gellner.
February 2015
Borders of Belonging. Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site. Mads Daugbjerg.
February 2015
Compassion technology: Life insurance and the remaking of kinship in Swaziland’s age of HIV
February 2015
Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era. Elise Andaya.
February 2015
Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty. Erica Weiss.
February 2015
Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War. Simon Harrison.
February 2015
Developmental diseases—an introduction to the neurological human (in motion)
February 2015
Driving while Palestinian in Israel and the West Bank: The politics of disorientation and the routes of a subaltern knowledge
February 2015
Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Adam Mohr.
February 2015
From the editor: Ethnography unbound
February 2015
Identity loan: The moral economy of migrant document exchange in California’s Central Valley
February 2015
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Steven Feld.
February 2015
Leaky humanitarianism: The anthropology of small arms control in the Gambia
February 2015
(Mis)managing Migration: Guestworkers’ Experiences with North American Labor Markets. David Griffith.
February 2015
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater: Artistic Developments in the Muslim World. Karin van Nieuwkerk, ed.
February 2015
Negotiating ritual duty in degenerate times: The goddess Mathamma and the legal secular in rural South India
February 2015
Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. Weaver, Thomas , James B. Greenberg , William L. Alexander & Anne Browning-Aiken (eds).
February 2015
On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece. Heath Cabot.
February 2015
Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. Daniel M. Goldstein.
February 2015
Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt. Hussein Ali Agrama.
February 2015
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters. Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka’wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema. Brad Evans and Aaron Glass, eds.
February 2015
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism. Robert Fletcher.
February 2015
The paradox of protection: Human rights, the masculinist state, and the moral economy of gratitude in Turkey
February 2015
The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality. Cati Coe.
February 2015
Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal, eds.
February 2015
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. John L. Jackson, Jr.
February 2015
What the beer shows: Exploring ritual and ontology in Kilimanjaro
February 2015
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. Shaylih Muehlmann.
April 2015
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia. Florian Mühlfried.
April 2015
Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups. Cristina Grasseni.
April 2015
Beyond remittance: Evading uselessness and seeking personhood in Fouta Djallon, Guinea
April 2015
Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Loring Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten.
April 2015
Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine
April 2015
Does meat come from animals? A multispecies approach to classification and belonging in highland Guatemala
April 2015
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran. David N. Yaghoubian.
April 2015
Ethnography for aging societies: Dignity, cultural genres, and Singapore’s imagined futures
April 2015
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East. Kamala Visweswaran, ed.
April 2015
Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa. Richard Vokes.
April 2015
Global health partnerships, governance, and sovereign responsibility in western Kenya
April 2015
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam. Tine M. Gammeltoft.
April 2015
Illness Is a Weapon: Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions. Eirik Saethre.
April 2015
Infrastructures of legitimacy: The political lives of marriage contracts in Jordan
April 2015
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation. David Novak.
April 2015
Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin. James Staples.
April 2015
Liberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guinea
April 2015
Melanesia: Art and Encounter. Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams, and Ben Burt, eds.
April 2015
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.–Mexico Border. Elizabeth Emma Ferry.
April 2015
Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time,Memory, Justice. David Scott.
April 2015
Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals. Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme.
April 2015
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico. Paja Faudree.
April 2015
Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea. Nicholas Harkness.
April 2015
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the US–Mexico Border. Suzanne Simon.
April 2015
The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice. Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu, eds.
April 2015
The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru. T. O. Beidelman.
April 2015
The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia. Nicholas Herriman.
April 2015
The ethics of a formula: Calculating a financial–humanitarian price for water
April 2015
The new communication order: Management, language, and morality in a multinational corporation
April 2015
The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism. Paul Amar.
April 2015
Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia. Buyandelger Manduhai.
April 2015
Wit and Greece’s economic crisis: Ironic slogans, food, and antiausterity sentiments
June 2015
Top Ten Anthropology Journals
July 2015
Looking beyond international diplomacy for peace framework in South Sudan
July 2015
Pheasant capitalism--harmonizing culture and nature?
August 2015
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Noelle Stout.
August 2015
AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. Daniel Jordan Smith.
August 2015
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Judith Okely.
August 2015
Anti-Crisis. Janet Roitman.
August 2015
Becoming Bureaucrats: Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service. Zachary W. Oberfield.
August 2015
Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India. Cecilia Van Hollen.
August 2015
Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. Nicole Constable.
August 2015
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty. Satsuki Kawano, Glenda Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long, eds.
August 2015
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity. William Mazzarella.
August 2015
Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village. Mary Elaine Hegland.
August 2015
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice. Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto, and Rachel Charlotte Smith, eds.
August 2015
How to Accept German Reparations. Susan Slyomovics.
August 2015
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism. Gavin Smith.
August 2015
Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea. Alex Golub.
August 2015
Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal–India Border. Coralynn V. Davis.
August 2015
Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics. Stuart Kirsch.
August 2015
Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream. Sherry B. Ortner.
August 2015
Performing Afro Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History. Kristina Wirtz.
August 2015
Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness. Jason James.
August 2015
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Akhil Gupta.
August 2015
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds.
August 2015
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France. Kimberly A. Arkin.
August 2015
Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica. Anne Galvin.
August 2015
The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges. Lilith Mahmud.
August 2015
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Sarah Besky.
August 2015
The Scope of Anthropology: Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context. Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff, eds.
August 2015
The Social Life of Water. John R. Wagner, ed.
August 2015
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story. Ian Condry.
August 2015
Whiteness Fractured. Cynthia Levine-Rasky.
August 2015
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia. Martin Demant Frederiksen.
August 2015
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August 2015
Biomedicine, the whiteness of sleep, and the wages of spatiotemporal normativity in the United States
August 2015
Pheasant capitalism: Auditing South Dakota’s state bird
August 2015
Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora
August 2015
Securing social difference: Militarization and sexual violence in an Afro-Nicaraguan community
August 2015
Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam
August 2015
The becoming of ancestral land: Place and property in Mapuche land claims
August 2015
The doctor’s political body: Doctor–patient interactions and sociopolitical belonging in Venezuelan state clinics
August 2015
“The goat that died for family”: Animal sacrifice and interspecies kinship in India’s Central Himalayas
August 2015
Violence, legitimacy, and prophecy: Nuer struggles with uncertainty in South Sudan
October 2015
Andalusi musical origins at the Moroccan-Algerian frontier: Beyond charter myth
October 2015
Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia. Sindre Bangstad.
October 2015
Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe. Esra Özyürek.
October 2015
Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia. Madeleine Reeves.
October 2015
Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt. Daniel J. Gilman.
October 2015
Cocaine’s minor destinies: Ephemerality and legal threat on the margins of the Peruvian state
October 2015
Coffee and the moral order: Ethiopian Jews and Pentecostals against culture
October 2015
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India. Jeffrey Witsoe.
October 2015
Democracy as the negation of discourse: Liberalism, clientelism, and agency in Brazil
October 2015
Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb. Rachel Heiman.
October 2015
Freeze, die, come to life: The many paths to immortality in post-Soviet Russia
October 2015
From the editor: Transitions, numbers, features
October 2015
How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain
October 2015
Indigenous blood and ethical regimes in the United States and Australia since the 1960s
October 2015
Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies. Patricia Lange.
October 2015
Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry
October 2015
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Audra Simpson.
October 2015
Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship. Victoria Bernal.
October 2015
Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship. Marit Melhuus.
October 2015
Queer Beirut. Sofian Merabet.
October 2015
Speaking of news: Press, democracy, and metapragmatics in a changing India
October 2015
The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Edward F. Fischer.
October 2015
The Hakkas of Sarawak: Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia. Kee Howe Yong.
October 2015
Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality. Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer, eds.
October 2015
Transmedia as experimental ethnography: The Exit Zero Project, deindustrialization, and the politics of nostalgia
October 2015
Valuing Black lives: Pentecostalism, charismatic gifts, and human economies in a U.S. inner city
October 2015
Variations on Uzbek Identity: Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes. Peter Finke.
January 2016
AE Forum: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Europe
February 2016
A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait. John Edward Terrell.
June 2016
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