Articles

Sovereign intimacies
The lives of documents within US state-noncitizen relationships
by GRAY ALBERT ABARCA and SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN

A life worth living
Temporality, care, and personhood in the Danish welfare state
by METTE N. SVENDSEN, LAURA E. NAVNE, IBEN M. GJØDSBØL, and MIE S. DAM

Gestures of taxidermy
Morphological approximation as interspecies affinity
by PETRA TJITSKE KALSHOVEN

The nation-family
Intimate encounters and genealogical perversion in Armenia
by TAMAR SHIRINIAN

Two deaths and a funeral
Ritual inscriptions’ affordances for mourning and moral personhood in Vietnam
by MERAV SHOHET

In search of dignified work
Gender and the work ethic in the crucible of fair trade production
by JOSH FISHER

A politics of respect
Reconfiguring democracy in Afro-Brazilian religious activism in Salvador, Brazil
by ELINA I. HARTIKAINEN

The front line of free speech
Beyond parrhêsia in Finland’s migrant debate
by HARRI ENGLUND

Animating creative selves
Pen names as property in the careers of Canadian and American romance writers
by JESSICA TAYLOR

Book Reviews

Image Brokers
Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation
by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel • reviewed by DANNY HOFFMAN

Reporting for China
How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
by Pál Nyíri • reviewed by LOUISA SCHEIN

The Resonance of Unseen Things
Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
by Susan Lepselter • reviewed by LILITH MAHMUD

Real Pigs
Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
by Brad Weiss • reviewed by ASHLEY STINNETT

My Life with Things
The Consumer Diaries
by Elizabeth Chin • reviewed by CARRIE M. LANE

Emergent Ecologies
by Eben Kirksey • reviewed by VIRGINIA D. NAZAREA

Sounding the Limits of Life
Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
by Stefan Helmreich • reviewed by ANDREA BALLESTERO

Animate Planet
Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
by Kath Weston • reviewed by TERESA LLORO-BIDART

Culturing Bioscience
A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science
by Udo Krautwurst • reviewed by WARREN M. HERN

Dispossession and the Environment
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
by Paige West • reviewed by JAMON HALVAKSZ

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds
Creating Community by Voicing the Past
by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein • reviewed by ALEX K. RUUSKA

Rebranding Islam
Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru
by James Bourk Hoesterey • reviewed by SUZANNE BRENNER

Shi‘i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
by Mara A. Leichtman • reviewed by MICHELLE C. JOHNSON

For Love of the Prophet
An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
by Noah Salomon • reviewed by SONDRA HALE

Sovereignty in Exile
A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs
by Alice Wilson • reviewed by KRISTIN D. PHILLIPS

Everyday Piety
Islam and Economy in Jordan
by Sarah A. Tobin • reviewed by MAHIR SAUL

Siege of the Spirits
Community and Polity in Bangkok
by Michael Herzfeld • reviewed by ERIC HAANSTAD

Faith and Charity
Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa
by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin eds. • reviewed by MICAH M. TRAPP

Affective Circuits
African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
by Jennifer Cole and Christian Groes • reviewed by DIANNA SHANDY

Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
by Orthon Alexandrakis ed. • reviewed by JAMES PHILLIPS

Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman eds. • reviewed by SERGEI KAN

Fragile Elite
The Dilemmas of China’s Top University Students
by Susanne Bregnbæk • reviewed by JOHN OSBURG

The Social Life of Materials
Studies in Material and Society
by Adam Drazin and Susanne Küchler eds. • reviewed by ELANA RESNICK

Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
by Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein eds. • reviewed by JESSICA MASON

We Were Adivasis
Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
by Megan Moodie • reviewed by LUCINDA RAMBERG