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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 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 Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes by Peter Gose Across the interface of state ethnography: Rethinking ethnology and its subjects in multicultural India Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism: A study in the political theology of the neighbor Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence Daydreaming, intimacy, and the intersubjective third in fieldwork encounters in Syria Digital distrust: Uzbek cynicism and solidarity in the Internet Age Eating local in a U.S. city: Reconstructing “community”—a third place—in a global neoliberal economy Foucault in the forest: Questioning environmentality in Amazonia Indigenizing the city and the future of Maori culture: The construction of community in Auckland as representation, experience, and self-making Iterations of lament: Anachronism and affect in a Shi‘i Islamic revival in Turkey Melancholia and anthropology Migration and paraethnography in Honduras Pueblo street fighting to national martial art: Nation building and the nationalization of a Venezuelan civilian combative practice Purity, danger, and redemption: Notes on urban missional evangelicals Sketching knowledge: Quandaries in the mimetic reproduction of Pueblo ritual The interrupted sacrifice: Hegemony and moral crisis among Israeli conscientious objectors The remaking of Lake Sakakawea: Locating cultural viability in negative heritage on the Missouri River “You’re my friend today, but not tomorrow”: Learning to be friends among young U.S. middle-class children An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race by Heather Merrill Bedouin “abjection”: World heritage, worldliness, and worthiness at the margins of Arabia Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras by Mark Anderson Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS by Frederick Klaits Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador Embryo adoption: Emergent forms of siblingship among Snowflakes® families Islam in South Asia in Practice edited by Barbara D. Metcalf Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung: Food, Fatness, and Well-Being over the Life-Span by Nancy Howell Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V. Beyer Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap by C. Jason Throop The Anthropology of Labor Unions edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah S. Reichart The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood edited by Fernando Santos-Granero The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul Shankman Titanic tales of missing men: Reconfigurations of national identity and gendered presence in Dakar, Senegal Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925–2006 by Hy Van Luong Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform by Enrique Mayer When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects by Adriana Petryna A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont by Marc Boglioli Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany by Cynthia Miller-Idriss Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller, eds. Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law by Richard Hyland Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed Love in Africa. Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas, eds. One People, One Blood: Ethiopians-Israelis and the Return to Judaism by Don Seeman The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor by Grace Kyungwon Hong Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling. Arne Kalland. City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala. Kevin Lewis O’Neill. Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution. Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb. Dangerous Citizens, the Greek Left and the Terror of the State. Neni Panourgiá. Embodying emergent masculinities: Men engaging with reproductive and sexual health technologies in the Middle East and Mexico Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability. Nina L. Etkin. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War. Antonius C. G. M. Robben, ed. Living Terraces of Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture and Development. Elizabeth E. Watson. Media and Middle Class Moms: Images and Realities of Work and Family. Lara Descartes and Conrad P. Kottak. Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development. Daromir Rudnyckyj. The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece. Yannis Hamilakis. The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe. Peter Geschiere. The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis. Henrietta Moore. Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation. Sarah D. Phillips. AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa. Ida Susser. Apocalyptic futures: The violent transformation of moral human life among Ayoreo-speaking people of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco Are births just “women’s business”? Gift exchange, value, and global volatility in Muslim Senegal Cameroonian bushfalling: Negotiation of identity and belonging in fiction and ethnography Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border. David Spener. CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting. Barry F. Saunders. Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez. Howard Campbell. Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water. Veronica Strang. Guns and guitars: Simulating sovereignty in a state of siege How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts. Günter Schlee. Indian and lesbian and what came next: Affect, commensuration, and queer emergences Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-Going after Stalin. Sudha Rajagopalan. Melted gold and national bodies: The hermeneutics of depth and the value of history in Brazilian racial politics Mobility, liminality, and embodiment in urban Egypt Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire. Lynne A. Haney. Organic intellectuals, crossing scales, and the emergence of social movements with respect to AIDS in South Africa Pentecostal dreaming and technologies of governmentality in a Melanesian society Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen. Lisa Wedeen. Rewriting the past and reimagining the future: The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits. Joana Breidenbach and Pál Nyíri. Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounter in Amazonia. Aparecida Vilaça. David Rodgers, trans. The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. Paul Henley. The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Douglas Rogers. TurboConsumers™ in paradise: Tourism, civil rights, and Brazil’s gay sex industry War and Memory in Lebanon. Sune Haugbolle. Quoting Mario Juruna: Linguistic imagery and the transformation of indigenous voice in the Brazilian print press Corruption as power: Caste and the political imagination of the postcolonial state Internal transmigrants: A Dagomba diaspora Kinship as gift and theft: Acts of succession in Mayotte and Israel On Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai Place markers: Tracking spatiality in Brazilian hip-hop and community radio Resistance or inaction? Protecting ayurvedic medical knowledge and problems of agency Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan Ore, Temporal Dispossession, and “Movement” in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo The social life of a “free” gift Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència What is the impact of transnational migration on family life? Women's comparisons of internal and international migration in a small town in Ghana “Hummus is best when it is fresh and made by Arabs”: The gourmetization of hummus in Israel and the return of the repressed Arab A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún. M. Bianet Castellanos. Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Eleana J. Kim. Airborn Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways. Christine Yano. City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain. Andrew M. Gardner. Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru. Shane Greene. Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism. Mark Goodale. Direct Action: An Ethnography. David Graeber. Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination. Amira Mittermaier. Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa. Amy Stambach. Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. Evelyn Blackwood. Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Katrina Karkazis. Itineraries of Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Politics of Tourism. Rebecca Stein. Justice without Government: Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev. Clinton Bailey. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast. Jan Hoffman French. Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India. Ritty A. Lukose. Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa. Mark Hunter. Making Their Place: Feminism after Socialism in Eastern Germany. Katja M. Guenther. Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction. Keisha Fikes. Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. Charles Piot. Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign. Ken Hillis. Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. Mary Gray. Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent. Lisa M. Hoffman. The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-Cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen. Flagg Miller. The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories. Florence E. Babb. Transnational Families, Migration, and Gender: Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona. Elisabetta Zontini. Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. Tracey Heatherington. Angels in Swindon: Public religion and ambient faith in England Beyond Secular and Religious: An intellectual genealogy of Tahrir Square “Dividing the Poor”: State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China Living the “Revolution” in an Egyptian Village Meanings and Feelings: Local interpretations of the use of violence in the Egyptian revolution No Longer a Bargain: Women, masculinity, and the Egyptian uprising Reflections on Secularism, Democracy, and Politics in Egypt Running Amok or Just Sleeping Rough? Long-grass camping and the politics of care in northern Australia Sectarian Conflict and Family Law in Contemporary Egypt Soviet Science and Post-Soviet Faith: Etigelov’s imperishable body Strength and Vulnerability after Egypt’s Arab Spring Uprisings The Egyptian Revolution: A Triumph of Poetry The Judge as Tragic Tero: Judicial ethics in Lebanon’s shari‘a courts The Politics of Wire Service Photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom The Privilege of Revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt Transgenic-free Territories in Costa Rica: Networks, place, and the politics of life Woven Worlds: Material things, bureaucratization, and dilemmas of caregiving in Lutheran humanitarianism Theorizing Wisconsin’s 2011 Protests: Community-based unionism confronts accumulation by dispossession Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. Karen Dubinsky. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. Stacey A. Langwick. Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Miriam Ticktin. Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Identity and Development Politics in Latin America. Monica C. DeHart. Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Johannes Fabian. Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights. Dorothy L. Hodgson. Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. M. Laetitia Cairoli. “God made beautiful things”: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. Alyshia Gálvez. Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space. David A. B. Murray, ed. I’m neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. Patricia Zavella. Islam, Politics, Anthropology. Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares, eds. Language and the frontiers of the human: Aymara animal-oriented interjections and the mediation of mind Life among the Anthros and Other Essays. Clifford Geertz. Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS. Deborah B. Gould. My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Bonnie A. Nardi. NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders’ perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. Pier Larson. One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement. Christa Craven. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Diane Nelson. Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation Rhizomes and other uncountables: The malaise of enumeration in Mexico’s Colorado River Delta Rite of passing: Bureaucratic encounters, dramaturgy, and Jewish conversion in Israel Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel. Juliana Ochs. Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar. Jennifer Cole. Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Roger N. Lancaster. The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. Lauren Derby. The Green Revolution’s ghost: Unruly subjects of participatory development in rural Indonesia The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals. Vincent Crapanzano. The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. Miliann Kang. The materiality of the corporation: Oil, gas, and corporate social technologies in the remaking of a Russian region The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming The sexual economy of a sugar plantation: Privatization and social welfare in northern Tanzania The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. Kate Ramsey. “The world is a forest of symbols”: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement. Tulasi Srinivas. Accidents of equity and the aesthetics of Chinese offshore incorporation Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally. Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner, eds. Commentary: Biopolitical injustice and contemporary capitalism Configuring the authentic value of real food: Farm-to-fork, snout-to-tail, and local food movements Conversion, continuity, and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo Creating model consumers: Producing ethnicity, race, and class in Asian American advertising Cultured States: Youth,Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Andrew Ivaska. Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility. Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci. Documentary disorders: Managing medical multiplicity in Maputo, Mozambique Ethnographic Sorcery. Harry G. West. Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany. Andrew Bickford. Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town. Steffen Jensen. Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness. Nitasha Tamar Sharma. Insectopedia. Hugh Raffles. Isma‘ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community. Jonah Steinberg. Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus. Susan E. Chase. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township. Erik Bähre. New Organ within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy. Aslihan Sanal. Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action. Michael Lambek, ed. Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.Michael Goddard. Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld. Kenneth M. George. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. Alexander Edmonds. Recreating Japanese Men. Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, eds. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. Michelle H. Raheja. Shari‘a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World. Robert W. Hefner, ed. Social Anthropology and Human Origins. Alan Barnard. The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. Gail Hershatter. The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. Carol J.Greenhouse. The psychic life of biopolitics: Survival, cooperation, and Inuit community The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York. Jonathan R. Wynn. Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. Olga M. González. ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba. Jafari S. Allen. Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism. Michael Largey. Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile. Magnus Course. Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy. Edith Turner. From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea. Paige West. Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Anne M. Rademacher. Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. David H. Price. Beauty as control in the new Saigon: Eviction, new urban zones, and atomized dissent in a Southeast Asian city Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico. Debra Lattanzi Shutika. Commentary: The corporation, oil, and the financialization of risk Commentary: What affect produces “Corn is food, not contraband”: The right to “free trade” at the Mexico–Guatemala border Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. Susan Greenhalgh. Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow, eds. Fighting like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld. Finding Grace in the Concert Hall: Community and Meaning among Springsteen Fans. Linda K. Randall. “Good individualism”? Psychology, ethics, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Russia Grown folks radio: U.S. election politics and a “hidden” black counterpublic In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility. Dinah Rajak. In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. Li Zhang. Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya. Elliot Fratkin. Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill. Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria. Gerald W. Creed. Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London. Maritsa Poros. Naming chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke, eds. Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine. Carole H. Browner and H. Mabel Preloran. News media and contention over “the local” in urban India Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness in Contemporary Africa. Sandra Evers, Catrien Notermans, and Erik van Ommering, eds. Offshore work: Oil, modularity, and the how of capitalism in Equatorial Guinea Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Elaine A. Peña. Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam. Kirsten W. Endres. Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Patrick Anderson. The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness. E. Paul Durrenberger, ed. The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Roberto Abadie. “This is our little hajj”: Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994. Donald L. Donham. Santu Mofokeng, photographs. Writing against identity politics: An essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain A cultural geometry: Designing political things in Sweden A pilgrimage to Arawān: Religious legitimacy, status, and ownership in Timbuktu Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean. Ian Whitmarsh. Bird flu biopower: Strategies for multispecies coexistence in Việt Nam Braided Worlds. Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham. Commentary: Eyes wide shut in transnational science and aid Commentary: Keywords as literacy practice in the history of anthropological theory Confessional pluralism and the civil society effect: Liberal mediations of Islam and secularism in contemporary Turkey Crafting the Indian: Knowledge, Desire and Play in Indianist Reenactment. Petra Tjitske Kalshoven. Cruising through uncertainty: Cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi. Erica Bornstein. Editor’s foreword: AE’s keywords by decade Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Andrew Shryock, ed. Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile. Clara Han. Live in Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Alex Perullo. Living dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism. Kristen Ghodsee. Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea. Caren Freeman. Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality. Michael J. Montoya. On love: Remaking moral subjectivity in postrehabilitation Russia Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World. Vanessa L. Fong. Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry. Tejaswini Ganti. Proxy citizenship and transnational advocacy: Colombian activists from Putumayo to Washington, DC Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb. Jennifer A. Selby. Ten Thousand Things. Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang. The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation. Christina Schwenkel. The bodily threat of miracles: Security, sacramentality, and the Egyptian politics of public order The Challenge of Epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives. Christina Toren and João de Pina-Cabral, eds. The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. Andrea Muehlebach. The Nature and Culture of Rattan: Reflections on Vanishing Life in the Forests of Southeast Asia. Stephen F. Siebert. “To put men in a bottle”: Eroticism, kinship, female power, and transactional sex in Maputo, Mozambique Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism among Urban Pakistani Women. Sadaf Ahmad. Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. Cathy A. Small. Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging. David McDermott Hughes. Bureaucratic aesthetics: Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie Editor’s foreword Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls’ struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness Financialization and the capitalist moment: Marx versus Weber in the anthropology of global systems Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power. Eben Kirksey. Friends and money: Balancing affection and reciprocity among young men in urban Ethiopia Globalization as a discourse of hegemonic crisis: A global systemic analysis God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Elizabeth F. S. Roberts. Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working-Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe. Don Kalb and Gábor Halmai, eds. Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia. Daniel Mains. Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy: Mobbing,Well-Being, and the Workplace. Noelle J. Molé. Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters. Bob W. White, ed. Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. Donald Martin Carter. Please forget democracy and justice: Eritrean politics and the powers of humor Political Crime and the Memory of Loss. John Borneman. Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Richard Price. Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography. Katharina Schneider. Simply the best: Parody and political sincerity in Iceland State of play: The political ontology of sport in Amazonian Peru The banana emperor: D. Pedro II in Brazilian caricatures, 1842–89 The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity. Peter Metcalf. The local-food movement and the anthropology of global systems The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity. Yael Navaro-Yashin. The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey. Paul Stoller. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Vinh-Kim Nguyen. The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. Vasiliki P. Neofotistos. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Danny Hoffman. Transnational circulation and digital fatigue in Ghana’s Azonto dance craze Trusted puppets, tarnished politicians: Humor and cynicism in Berlusconi’s Italy Accounting for silence: Inheritance, debt, and the moral economy of legal redress in China and Japan Caring for the “Holy Land”: Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel. Claudia Liebelt. Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico. Laura A. Lewis. Clean fake: Authenticating documents and persons in migrant Moscow Economies of Recycling: The Global Transformation of Materials, Values, and Social Relations. Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno, eds. Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. James Carrier and Peter Luetchford, eds. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T. L. Taylor. 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. Governing How We Care: Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs. Susan J. Shaw. Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. Matthew Hull. Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay. Kregg Hetherington. Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject. Héléne Mialet. Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil. Kelly E. Hayes. How to do things to children with words: Language, ritual, and apocalypse in pediatric HIV treatment in Botswana Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio. Harri Englund. Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany. Damani J. Partridge. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. Julie Livingston. Life within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want. Michael D. Jackson. Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. Naveeda Khan. Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos. Sarinda Singh. No Family Is an Island: Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora. Ilana Gershon. On Christianity and ethics: Rupture as ethical practice in Ghanaian Pentecostalism Reckoning with press freedom: Community media, liberalism, and the processual state in Caracas, Venezuela Recovering debts: Microfinance loan officers and the work of “proxy-creditors” in India Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans,White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship. Kristi Brian. Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post- Soviet Cuba. P. Sean Brotherton. Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men. Carlos Ulises Decena. Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Margot Weiss. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options.Walter D. Mignolo. The judicialization of biopolitics: Claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal. Orin Starn. The photographer’s body: Populism, polarization, and the uses of victimhood in Venezuela The poetics of village space when villages are new: Settlement form as history making in Papua, Indonesia The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity. Heather Levi. Transforming Cape Town. Catherine Besteman. Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea. Rachael Miyung Joo. Wall Street Women. Melissa S. Fisher. American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation across the Centuries. Pauline Turner Strong. Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory. Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, eds. Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece. Elisabeth Anne Davis. Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ronda L. Brulotte. Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation. Jean Dennison. Confronting uncertainty: Anthropology and zones of the extraordinary Crossing Mexico: Structural violence and the commodification of undocumented Central American migrants Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti. Erica C. James. Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan. Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. Joseph Dumit. Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda. Jennie E. Burnet. Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey. Christopher Dole. Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain. Susana Narotzky and Gavin Smith. In the Smaller Scope of Conscience: The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990. C. Timothy McKeown. Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan. Michelle Bigenho. “It seemed like a punishment”: Teacher transfers, hollow nationalism, and the intimate state in Eritrea Let us make God our banker: Ethics, temporality, and agency in a Ugandan charity home Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes. Emma Cervone. Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation Managing the margins: MBA training, international business, and “the value chain of culture” Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures. Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, eds. Performing Place, Practicing Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State. Rosita Henry. Polluted money, polluted wealth: Emerging regimes of value in the Mongolian gold rush Religious cosmopolitanisms: Media, transnational Santería, and travel between the United States and Cuba Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa. 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