BOOK REVIEWS


Brown saviors and their others: Race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India By Arjun ShankarDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023336 pp.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Antiblackness By Jung Moon-Kie and João H. Costa Vargas, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021392 pp.
Roger Baumann

A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Bolivarian Venezuela By Matt WildeStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023236 pp.
Amy Cooper

Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By Fida AdelyChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024207 pp.
Susan MacDougall

Wombs of empire: Population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan By Sujin LeeStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023258 pp.
Vera Mackie

The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By Ruchi ChaturvediDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023250 pp.
Luisa Steur

Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian occupation By Hafsa KanjwalStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023366 pp.
Sandhya Fuchs

The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline women By Fauzia HusainStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024306 pp.
Sahana Ghosh

Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By Andrea WrightStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021288 pp.
Nidhi Mahajan

Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By Suzanne OakdaleLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022262 pp.
Chloe Nahum-Claudel

Onscreen/offscreen By Constantine V. NakassisToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022400 pp.
Sandhya Krittika Narayanan

Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone By Tania Murray Li and Pujo SemediDurham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.
Stuart Earle Strange

Of jaguars and butterflies: Metalogues on issues in anthropology and philosophy By Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida VilaçaOxford: Berghahn Books, 2023140 pp.
Lewis Daly

Uncommon cause: Living for environmental justice in Kerala By John MathiasOakland: University of California Press, 2024276 pp.
Thanzeel Nazer

Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By Uday ChandraStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024340 pp.
Sara Roncaglia

Conceiving Christian America: Embryo adoption and reproductive politics By Risa CromerNew York: New York University Press, 2023320 pp.
Claire Wendland

The avatar faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games By Jeffrey G. SnodgrassOakland: University of California Press, 2023280 pp.
Lars de Wildt

The inspiration machine: Computational creativity in poetry and jazz By Eitan Y. WilfChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023261 pp.
Ritwik Banerji