Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2024)
Original Articles
The perils of producing revolutionary moderation: entertainment, style, and the ‘Islamic Che’ in Iran
Narges Bajoghli
Brexit with a little ‘b’: navigating belonging, ordinary Brexits, and emotional relations
Cathrine Degnen, Katharine Tyler, Joshua Blamire
Changing economic experiences and understandings
James G. Carrier
The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan
Ammara Maqsood
Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster
Tom Özden-Schilling
Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia
Joe Ellis
Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it★
Harvey Whitehouse
How to be a good guest: American ethnographers in Turkey in the long 1968
Ali Sipahi
Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same-sex attraction in Indonesia
Febi R. Ramadhan
Zainab’s traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia
Emrah Yıldız
‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low-income urban India
Lesley Branagan
Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
Long Reviews
Large questions from a brief encounter
James Laidlaw
Economic volatilities, gold mining, and subjective transformations in Mongolia
Manduhai Buyandelger
Book and Film Reviews
Dent, Alexander Sebastian. Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil. 208 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £23.99 (paper)
Laura-Zoë Humphreys
O’Hare, Patrick. Rubbish belongs to the poor: hygienic enclosure and the waste commons. xiv, 218 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2022. £19.99 (paper)
Manuel Rosaldo
Stainova, Yana. Sonorous worlds: musical enchantment in Venezuela. xiv, 265 pp., bibliogr. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2021. £25.95 (paper)
Geoffrey Baker
Weidman, Amanda. Brought to life by the voice: playback singing and cultural politics in South India. 270 pp., table, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. Open access; £30.00 (paper)
Nakul Krishnamurthy
Hannaford, Dinah. Aid and the help: international development and the transnational extraction of care. 228 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2023. £23.99 (paper)
Anindita Majumdar
Katharina Ivanyi & Rüdiger Lohlker (eds). Humanitarian Islam: reflecting on an Islamic concept. 194 pp., bibliogr. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023. €110.28 (cloth)
Jonathan Benthall
Varma, Saiba. The occupied clinic: militarism and care in Kashmir. 304 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £24.99 (paper)
Ankur Datta
Andreas Bandak (ed.). The social life of prayer: anthropological engagements with Christian practice. 122 pp., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £130.00 (cloth)
Jeff Levin
Menoret, Pascal. Graveyard of clerics: everyday activism in Saudi Arabia. 264 pp., illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2020. £21.99 (paper)
Zina Sawaf
Buchbinder, Mara. Scripting death: stories of assisted dying in America. viii, 234 pp., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £23.00 (cloth)
Anthony Stavrianakis
Huberman, Jennifer. Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars. xii, 292 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2021. £69.99 (cloth)
Jon Bialecki
Stonington, Scott. The spirit ambulance: choreographing the end of life in Thailand. 208 pp., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2020. £25.00 (paper)
Joanna Cook
Walton, Shireen. Ageing with smartphones in urban Italy: care and community in Milan and beyond. xix, 188 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2021. £25.00 (paper)
Jay Sokolovsky
Bessire, Lucas. Running out: in search of water on the High Plains. 264 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2021. £22.00 (cloth)
Julia Sizek
Chao, Sophie. In the shadow of the palms: more-than-human becomings in West Papua. x, 321 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2022. £24.99 (paper)
Julia C. Morris
Dickinson, John. Fireland dogs. 70 mins, colour. DVD. Watertown, Mass.: DER Films, 2019. $34.95 (home)
Luisa Amador Fanaro
Hetherington, , , Kregg. The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops. viii, 296 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £24.99 (paper)
Desirée Kumpf
Huhn, Arianna. Nourishing life: foodways and humanity in an African town. xviii, 216 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth)
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Buchanan, Sherry. On the Ho Chi Minh Trail: the blood road, the women who defend it, the legacy. 278 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. London: Asia Ink, 2021. £20.00 (cloth)
Lam Minh Chau
Jeremy DeSilva (ed.); with an introduction by Janet Browne. A most interesting problem: what Darwin’s Descent of man got right and wrong about human evolution. 288 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2021. £22.00 (cloth)
Rob Barton
Paolo Fortis & Susanne Küchler (eds). Time and its object: a perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian societies on the temporality of images. 214 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Routledge, 2021. £38.99 (eBook)
Inna Yaneva-Toraman
Sachedina, Amal. Cultivating the past, living the modern: the politics of time in the Sultanate of Oman. 300 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2021. £25.99 (paper)
Kamala Russell
Books and films received
Books and films received
Erratum
Correction to “Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)”