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March 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Piccio, D. R.
March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
March 2019
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)
March 2019
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.
March 2019
Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
March 2019
Playing the Marginality Game
Identity Politics in West Africa
Schroven, A.
March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Li, G.
March 2019
Beyond the Border
Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Wung-Sung, T. H.
March 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)
April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Argenti, N. (ed)
April 2019
The Engaged Historian
Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession
Berger, S. (ed)
April 2019
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
April 2019
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)
April 2019
Planning Labour
Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania
Cucu, A.-S.
April 2019
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification
Chun, A.
May 2019
The Brazilian Truth Commission
Local, National and Global Perspectives
SChneider, N. (ed)
May 2019
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements
Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016
Valdiva Rivera, S.
May 2019
Engaging Evil
A Moral Anthropology
Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)
May 2019
Marketing Hope
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia
Schiffauer, L.
June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
June 2019
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
June 2019
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere
From the Enlightenment to the Indignados
Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)
June 2019
Market Frictions
Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border
Endres, K. W.
June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
July 2019
The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
July 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Agyekum, H. A.
July 2019
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
July 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements
Anthropological Perspectives
Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)
July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
July 2019
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & EspÃrito Santo, D. (eds)
July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
July 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
August 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
August 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)
August 2019
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
August 2019
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.
September 2019
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Ethnographic Responses
MartÃnez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)
September 2019
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
September 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
September 2019
Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
Gray, P. (ed)
October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
October 2019
Claiming Homes
Confronting Domicide in Rural China
Bruckermann, C.
October 2019
Inward Looking
The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Marinov, A. G.
October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
October 2019
Sometime Kin
Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
Wallman, S.
October 2019
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
October 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Mallios, S.
November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Ethnographic Approaches
Noret, J. (ed)
November 2019
Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Rogerson, J. J. M.
November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town
Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class
Mollona, M.
November 2019
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
November 2019
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
November 2019
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)
November 2019
Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
December 2019
Nationalism Revisited
Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age
Karner, C.
December 2019
A Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Rosental, P.-A.
January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Curran, G.
January 2020
Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
January 2020
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Fahy, J.
January 2020
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
January 2020
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams
The Art of Managing Foreign Aid
Drążkiewicz, E.
January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Barr, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
February 2020
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Schraten, J.
February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise
Affect, Tourism, Belize
Little, K.
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Editor: Christine McCourt, City, University of London
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285
Volume 26/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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ISSN Print: 2164-4543
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