Volume 30, Issue 2 (June 2024)
Original Articles
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter-community dialogue
Yulia Egorova
Bureaucracy and distributed vulnerability at a Chinese research institute: beyond the faculty perspective on audit cultures
Timothy McLellan
The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC-EP
Gwen Burnyeat
Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia
Nicholas Lackenby
‘Real Orthodox men’: religious masculinities and the new Russian culture of military patriotism
Victoria Fomina
Cutting at the edge: observations on innovation beyond the urban
Limor Samimian-Darash, Amit Sheniak, Nir Rotem
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey
Elif M. Babül
Survivals and the persistence of the past
Gavin Lucas
‘Our therapeutic direction is towards Light’: transcendence and a non-secular politics of difference in Islamic Counselling training
Sabnum Dharamsi, Giulia Liberatore
Sharing suits and letters: redressing late-capitalist precarity in South Korea
Olga Fedorenko
What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society
Giordano Marmone
A developmental perspective on social status: children’s understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London
Anni Kajanus
Long Reviews
Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology
Amira Mittermaier
From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values
Natalie Morningstar
Book and Film Reviews
Kuper, Adam. The Museum of Other People: from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions. 432 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Profile Books, 2023. £25.00 (cloth)
Alice Millar
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (ed.). First fieldwork: Pacific anthropology 1960-1985. x, 251 pp., map, illus., bibliogrs. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. £30.95 (paper)
Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern)
Dewan, Camelia; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. xxvi, 224 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2021. £22.99 (paper)
David Lipset
Judith Shapiro & John-Andrew McNeish (eds). Our extractive age: expressions of violence and resistance. 280 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2021. Open access; £35.99 (paper)
Daniela Soto Hernández
Olga Ulturgasheva & Barbara Bodenhorn (eds); foreword by Peter Schweitzer; afterword by Michael Bravo. Risky futures: climate, geopolitics and local realities in the uncertain circumpolar North. 234 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £99.00 (cloth)
Adriana Petryna
Unuigbe, Ngozi Finette. Traditional ecological knowledge and global pandemics: biodiversity and planetary health beyond COVID-19. 94 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £16.99 (e-book)
Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
Beynon, Huw & Ray Hudson. The shadow of the mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain. xii, 402 pp., maps, tables, plates, bibliogr. London: Verso, 2021. £20.00 (cloth)
Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes
Brumann, Christoph. The best we share: nation, culture and world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena. xii, 303 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £100.00 (cloth)
Herdis Hølleland
Herzfeld, Michael. Subversive archaism: troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritage. xvi, 239 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2022. £21.99 (paper)
Eric Hirsch
Mark S. Micale & Hans Pols (eds). Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present. xiv, 345 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £107.00 (cloth)
Jeff Kingston
Dumes, Abigail A. Divided bodies: Lyme disease, contested illness, and evidence-based medicine. 360 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £25.99 (paper)
Matthew Abel
Mol, Annemarie. Eating in theory. 208 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £21.99 (paper)
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Mariann Vaczi & Alan Bairner (eds). Indigenous, traditional, and folk sports: contesting modernities. 296 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2024. £38.99 (e-book)
Dario Nardini
Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds). Experimenting with ethnography: a companion to analysis. xi, 301 pp., figs., illus., bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £20.99 (paper)
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
Andreas Bandak & Simon Coleman (eds). Different repetitions: anthropological engagements with figures of return, recurrence and redundancy. 128 pp., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £38.99 (e-book)
Joseph Tulasiewicz
Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)
Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Fassin, Didier; trans. Rachel Gomme. Death of a Traveller: a counter-investigation. 160 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. £15.99 (paper)
Mark Ingram
Radomir Konstantinović; ed. Branislav Jakovljević; trans. Ljiljana Nikolić & Branislav Jakovljević. The philosophy of parochialism. x, 356 pp., bibliogrs. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2021. £68.95 (cloth)
Nigel Rapport
Pizza, Giovanni. L’antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper)
Alice Stefanelli
Felipe Rojas, Byron Ellsworth Hamann & Benjamin Anderson (eds). Otros pasados: ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido. 369 pp., illus., bibliogr. Bogotá: Univ. de los Andes, 2022. COPS $30,000 (paper)
Robert S. Weiner
Xiang Biao & Wu Qi; trans. David Ownby. Self as method: thinking through China and the world. vii, 268 pp., illus., bibliogr. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £44.99 (cloth)
Gil Hizi
Abreu, Maria José. The Charismatic gymnasium: breath, media, and religious revivalism in contemporary Brazil. xiv, 233 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £22.99 (paper)
Johanna Bard Richlin
Guenzi, Caterina. Words of destiny: practicing astrology in North India. xiv, 376 pp., tables, figs., illus., bibliogr. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2021. £27.70 (paper)
Nupurnima Yadav
Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter (eds). Nine nights of power: Durgā, dolls, and darbars. xiv, 294 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2021. £69.35 (cloth)
Ralph W. Nicholas
Peletz, Michael G. Sharia transformations: cultural politics and the rebranding of an Islamic judiciary. xxi, 308 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £30.00 (paper)
Faiza El-Higzi
Books and films received
Books and films received