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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. James McDougall and Judith Scheele, eds.
Senses of care: Embodying inequality and sustaining personhood in the home care of older adults in Chicago
Sociable robots, jazz music, and divination: Contingency as a cultural resource for negotiating problems of intentionality
Stealing Shining Rivers: Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic and Conservation in a Mexican Forest. Molly Doane.
Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community. Ray Cashman.
The hybrid state: Crime and citizenship in urban Jamaica
The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor and Policymaking in the European Union. Gregory Feldman.
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande. Angela Garcia.
The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt. Samuli Schielke.
Trading fours: Creativity, analogy, and exchange
Troubling kinship: Sacred marriage and gender configuration in South India
Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh. Morgan Y. Liu.
Virtual Issue: In/visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013
Prize-Winning AE Articles
A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics. Michael Cepek.
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War. Carole McGranahan.
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes. Joanne Rappaport and Tom Cummins.
Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War. Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz.
Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji
Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy. Jennifer Burrell and Ellen Moodie, eds.
Commentary on Andrew Orta’s “Managing the Margins”: The anthropology of transnational capitalism, neoliberalism, and risk
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Culinary Capital. Peter Naccarato and Kathleen LeBesco.
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Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. Charles Stewart.
Economy in practice: Islamic finance and the problem of market reason
Ethnography at its edges: Introduction to new AE book review essay series
Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination. Katherine Swancutt.
Gendered Scenarios of Revolution: Making New Men and New Women in Nicaragua, 1975–2000. Rosario Montoya.
Housewives of Japan: An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni.
In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies: Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social. Maurice Bloch.
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Alpa Shah.
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru. Kimberly Theidon.
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives. Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne, eds.
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color. Nina G. Jablonski.
Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas. Heidi Moksnes.
Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality. Kevin K. Birth.
On ambivalent nativism: Hegemony, photography and “recalcitrant alterity” in Sphakia, Crete
On the monopoly: Speculation, pharmaceutical markets, and intellectual property law in Nigeria
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec, eds.
Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland. Longina Jakubowska.
Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar. Jennifer Jackson.
Provisional agency in India: Jugaad and legitimation of corruption
Public things, excremental politics, and the infrastructure of bare life in Ghana’s city of Tema
Reclaiming Basque: Language, Nation, and Cultural Activism. Jacqueline Urla.
Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context. Robin Maria DeLugan.
Self–Othering: Stories about Serbia from externalized Belgrade insiders
Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Khaled Furani.
Standardized forms of Vietnamese selfhood: An ethnographic genealogy of documentation
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The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing. Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia.
The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.
Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy. Leigh Binford.
True life, real lives: Revisiting the boundaries between ethnography and fiction
Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Are Knudsen.
AE 2013 Top Downloads
Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. David Mosse, ed.
Brazilian Food: Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines. Jane Fajans.
Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh. Lotte Hoek.
Hostile remixes on YouTube: A new constraint on pro-FARC counterpublics
Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. Gabriele Schwab.
Installing the insider “outside”: House reconstruction and the transformation of binary ideologies in independent Timor-Leste
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places. Erica T. Lehrer.
Mayan imaginaries of democracy: Interactive sovereignties and political affect in postrevolutionary Guatemala
Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa. Thomas Blom Hansen.
Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land. Nicole Fabricant.
National Days and the Politics of Indigenous and Local Identities in Australia and New Zealand. Patrick A. McAllister.
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Nicolas Langlitz.
Ownership and Appropriation. Veronica Strang and Mark Busse, eds.
Performing dignity: Human rights, citizenship, and the techno-politics of law in South Africa
Remitting wealth, reciprocating health? The “travel” of the land from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War. Peter Mandler.
“The collective circle”: Latino immigrant musicians and politics in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Contested Floodplain: Institutional Change of the Commons in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Tobias Haller.
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Jemima Pierre.
The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions. Alma Gottlieb, ed.
The télèphone malgache: Transnational gossip and social transformation among Malagasy marriage migrants in France
The U.S. car colossus and the production of inequality
Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia. Harry Walker.
Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identity in Brazil. André Cicalo.
Urban mosquitoes, situational publics, and the pursuit of interspecies separation in Dar es Salaam
When infrastructures attack: The workings of disrepair in China
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A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea. Michael French Smith.
Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach. Myron Aronoff and Jan Kubik.
Beyond compassion: Islamic voluntarism in Egypt
Cashinahua perspectives on functional anatomy: Ontology, ontogenesis, and biomedical education in Amazonia
Cutting bella figura: Irony, crisis, and secondhand clothes in South Italy
Demands of the Day: On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry. Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis.
Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops. Chaia Heller.
“Fraternal” nations and challenges to sovereignty in Ukraine: The politics of linguistic and religious ties
Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress. Fida J. Adely.
God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. Matthew Engelke.
I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Catherine E. Bolten.
Infrastructure and interpretation: Meters, dams, and state imagination in Scotland and India
Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast. Lisa Breglia.
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. S. Lochlann Jain.
Of power and laughter: Carnivalesque politics and moral citizenship in Lithuania
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific. Christine R. Yano.
Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-Local Identities in Bosnian War-Torn Communities. Hariz Halilovich.
Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia. Catherine Allerton.
Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany. Stefan Sperling.
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Khiara M. Bridges.
Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina. Elana Shever.
Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Erica Lorraine Williams.
Some not-so-hidden injuries of class: Authoethnographies of U.S. social mobility
Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast. Kristin L. Dowell.
The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion. Stephan Palmié.
The empire strikes back: War without war and occupation without occupation in the Russian sphere of influence
The interpretation of lives or life as interpretation: Cohabiting with spirits in the Malagasy world
The Neo-Indians: A Religion for the Third Millennium. Jacques Galinier and Antoinette Molinié. Lucy Lyall Grant, trans.
The social unit of debt: Gender and creditworthiness in Paraguayan microfinance
The Specter of “The People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China. Mun Young Cho.
The strength of badenya ties: Siblings and social security in old age–the case of urban Burkina Faso
The Women’s Squad in Ukraine’s protests: Feminism, nationalism, and militarism on the Maidan
Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden. David Picard.
Toxic uncertainties of a nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir
Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing. Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds.
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, eds.
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Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. Timothy de Waal Malefyt and Robert J.Morais.
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich. John Osburg.
Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics. Amahl A. Bishara.
Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice. Christine Ward Gailey.
Bureaucratic gifts: Religious conversion, change, and exchange in Israel
Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas. Arlene Dávila.
Ukraine Crisis: AE Forum, August 2014
Digital Anthropology. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, eds.
Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes.
Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone Industry. Lawrence Babb.
Farming the South African “Bush”: Ecologies of belonging and exclusion in rooibos tea
Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Christa Craven and Dána-Ain Davis, eds.
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist, eds.
Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados. David Murray.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Seth M. Holmes.
History’s remainders: On time and objects after conflict in Cyprus
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.
How I learned to channel: Epistemology, phenomenology, and practice in a New Age course
Irish/ness Is All around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland. Olaf Zenker.
Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua. Danilyn Rutherford.
Modern meetings: Participation, democracy, and language ideology in Brazil’s MST landless movement
Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration. Susan Ossman.
My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century. Alisse Waterston.
Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina. Javier Auyero.
Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology and Surveillance. Catarina Frois.
Precarious Japan. Anne Allison.
Prime-time politics: News, parody, and fictional credibility in Chile
Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. Anya Bernstein.
Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia. Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota, eds.
The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy.
The Indigenous Space: Marginalized Peoples and the United Nations. Jens Dahl.
The long count of historical memory: Ixhil Maya ceremonial speech in Guatemala
The paradoxical victim: Intimate violence narratives on trial in Italy
The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. Karel Plessini.
The potency of indigenous “bibles” and biographies: Mapuche shamanic literacy and historical consciousness
The Social Life of Achievement. Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore, eds.
The Social Life of Spirits. Ruy Blanes and Diana Espírito Santo, eds.
The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom. James Laidlaw.
Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia. Christopher R. Duncan.
Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa. Isak Niehaus.
“You can’t buy a vote”: Meanings of money in a Mumbai election
#Ferguson Supplement: Background Readings on Ferguson, Missouri
#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States
AE 2014 Top Downloads
A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India. Vibha Joshi.
A tale of two courts: Judicial transformation and the rise of a corporate Islamic governmentality in Malaysia
African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster, eds.
An Anthropology of Architecture. Victor Buchli.
Anthropology and the inchoate intimacies of power
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship. Sarah Franklin.
Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David W. Sabean and Simon Teuscher eds.
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. David N. Gellner.
Borders of Belonging. Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site. Mads Daugbjerg.
Compassion technology: Life insurance and the remaking of kinship in Swaziland’s age of HIV
Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era. Elise Andaya.
Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty. Erica Weiss.
Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War. Simon Harrison.
Developmental diseases—an introduction to the neurological human (in motion)
Driving while Palestinian in Israel and the West Bank: The politics of disorientation and the routes of a subaltern knowledge
Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Adam Mohr.
From the editor: Ethnography unbound
Identity loan: The moral economy of migrant document exchange in California’s Central Valley
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Steven Feld.
Leaky humanitarianism: The anthropology of small arms control in the Gambia
(Mis)managing Migration: Guestworkers’ Experiences with North American Labor Markets. David Griffith.
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater: Artistic Developments in the Muslim World. Karin van Nieuwkerk, ed.
Negotiating ritual duty in degenerate times: The goddess Mathamma and the legal secular in rural South India
Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico. Weaver, Thomas , James B. Greenberg , William L. Alexander & Anne Browning-Aiken (eds).
On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece. Heath Cabot.
Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. Daniel M. Goldstein.
Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt. Hussein Ali Agrama.
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.
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism. Robert Fletcher.
The paradox of protection: Human rights, the masculinist state, and the moral economy of gratitude in Turkey
The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality. Cati Coe.
Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal, eds.
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. John L. Jackson, Jr.
What the beer shows: Exploring ritual and ontology in Kilimanjaro
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. Shaylih Muehlmann.
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia. Florian Mühlfried.
Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups. Cristina Grasseni.
Beyond remittance: Evading uselessness and seeking personhood in Fouta Djallon, Guinea
Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Loring Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten.
Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine
Does meat come from animals? A multispecies approach to classification and belonging in highland Guatemala
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran. David N. Yaghoubian.
Ethnography for aging societies: Dignity, cultural genres, and Singapore’s imagined futures
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East. Kamala Visweswaran, ed.
Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa. Richard Vokes.
Global health partnerships, governance, and sovereign responsibility in western Kenya
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam. Tine M. Gammeltoft.
Illness Is a Weapon: Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions. Eirik Saethre.
Infrastructures of legitimacy: The political lives of marriage contracts in Jordan
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation. David Novak.
Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin. James Staples.
Liberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guinea
Melanesia: Art and Encounter. Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams, and Ben Burt, eds.
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.–Mexico Border. Elizabeth Emma Ferry.
Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time,Memory, Justice. David Scott.
Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals. Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme.
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico. Paja Faudree.
Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea. Nicholas Harkness.
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the US–Mexico Border. Suzanne Simon.
The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice. Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu, eds.
The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru. T. O. Beidelman.
The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia. Nicholas Herriman.
The ethics of a formula: Calculating a financial–humanitarian price for water
The new communication order: Management, language, and morality in a multinational corporation
The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism. Paul Amar.
Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia. Buyandelger Manduhai.
Wit and Greece’s economic crisis: Ironic slogans, food, and antiausterity sentiments
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Pheasant capitalism--harmonizing culture and nature?
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Noelle Stout.
AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. Daniel Jordan Smith.
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Judith Okely.
Anti-Crisis. Janet Roitman.
Becoming Bureaucrats: Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service. Zachary W. Oberfield.
Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India. Cecilia Van Hollen.
Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. Nicole Constable.
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty. Satsuki Kawano, Glenda Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long, eds.
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity. William Mazzarella.
Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village. Mary Elaine Hegland.
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice. Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto, and Rachel Charlotte Smith, eds.
How to Accept German Reparations. Susan Slyomovics.
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism. Gavin Smith.
Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea. Alex Golub.
Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal–India Border. Coralynn V. Davis.
Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics. Stuart Kirsch.
Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream. Sherry B. Ortner.
Performing Afro Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History. Kristina Wirtz.
Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness. Jason James.
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Akhil Gupta.
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds.
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France. Kimberly A. Arkin.
Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica. Anne Galvin.
The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges. Lilith Mahmud.
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Sarah Besky.
The Scope of Anthropology: Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context. Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff, eds.
The Social Life of Water. John R. Wagner, ed.
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story. Ian Condry.
Whiteness Fractured. Cynthia Levine-Rasky.
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia. Martin Demant Frederiksen.
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Biomedicine, the whiteness of sleep, and the wages of spatiotemporal normativity in the United States
Pheasant capitalism: Auditing South Dakota’s state bird
Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora
Securing social difference: Militarization and sexual violence in an Afro-Nicaraguan community
Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam
The becoming of ancestral land: Place and property in Mapuche land claims
The doctor’s political body: Doctor–patient interactions and sociopolitical belonging in Venezuelan state clinics
“The goat that died for family”: Animal sacrifice and interspecies kinship in India’s Central Himalayas
Violence, legitimacy, and prophecy: Nuer struggles with uncertainty in South Sudan
Andalusi musical origins at the Moroccan-Algerian frontier: Beyond charter myth
Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia. Sindre Bangstad.
Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe. Esra Özyürek.
Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia. Madeleine Reeves.
Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt. Daniel J. Gilman.
Cocaine’s minor destinies: Ephemerality and legal threat on the margins of the Peruvian state
Coffee and the moral order: Ethiopian Jews and Pentecostals against culture
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India. Jeffrey Witsoe.
Democracy as the negation of discourse: Liberalism, clientelism, and agency in Brazil
Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb. Rachel Heiman.
Freeze, die, come to life: The many paths to immortality in post-Soviet Russia
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How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain
Indigenous blood and ethical regimes in the United States and Australia since the 1960s
Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies. Patricia Lange.
Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Audra Simpson.
Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship. Victoria Bernal.
Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship. Marit Melhuus.
Queer Beirut. Sofian Merabet.
Speaking of news: Press, democracy, and metapragmatics in a changing India
The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Edward F. Fischer.
The Hakkas of Sarawak: Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia. Kee Howe Yong.
Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality. Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer, eds.
Transmedia as experimental ethnography: The Exit Zero Project, deindustrialization, and the politics of nostalgia
Valuing Black lives: Pentecostalism, charismatic gifts, and human economies in a U.S. inner city
Variations on Uzbek Identity: Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes. Peter Finke.
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