JASOonline 2021-

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1 Edwin Jiang: The limits of agency: aspirational frustrations amongst working-class Chinese youths, 3 (Word file)

2 Heidi Cooke: Making art, making value online: NFTs, Blockchains and online art economies, 23 (Word file)

3 Eldar Bråten: Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak, 51 (Word file)

4 Christian-Radu Chereji and Aris Tsantiropoulos: Mediation in a feuding society: an anthropological approach to the process of sasmos in contemporary Crete, 72 (Word file)

5 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (edited with an introduction by Kit Lee): Some reflections on mysticism, 91 (Word file)

Editors’ introduction: Anthropology in translation (JASO occasional series), 112 (Word file)

6 Mériam Cheikh (translated by David Zeitlyn): Cover-up is better than exposure: scandals, flexible norms, prostitution or sexual dissidence in Morocco, 113 (Word file)

7 Chihab El Khachab: Marcus Banks: an annotated bibliography, 129 (Word file)

Book reviews
Andrés González Dinamarca. Marshall Sahlins. The new science of the enchanted universe: an anthropology of most of humanity. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2022, 208 P. ISBN: 9780691215921, 156 (Word file)

Andrés González Dinamarca. Daniel Ruiz-Serna. When forests run amok: war and its afterlives in indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 270 P. ISBN: 9781478019503, 158 (Word file)

Arjunvir Singh. Michael M.J. Fischer. Probing arts and emergent forms of life. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 336 P. ISBN: 9781478019770, 160 (Word file)

Emily Long. Michael M.J. Fischer. At the pivot of East and West: ethnographic, literary, and filmic arts. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 365 P. ISBN: 9781478019893, 162 (Word file)

Carolyn Gover. Michael M. Muthukrishna. A theory of everyone: who we are, how we got here, and where we’re going. Cambridge: MIT Press 2023. 448 P. ISBN: 9781399810630, 164 (Word file)

Cho Kiu Chiang. Vanessa Grotti. Nurturing the other: first contacts and the making of Christian bodies in Amazonia. New York: Berghahn Books 2022. 212 P. ISBN: 9781800734586, 166 (Word file)

Ellen M. Burstein. Andrea Muehlebach. A vital frontier: water insurgencies in Europe. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 274 P. ISBN: 9781478019831, 168 (Word file)

Beatriz Mutter Quinderé Fraga. Luci Attala and Louis Steel, eds. Plants matter: exploring the becomings of plants and peoples, 1st Ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2023. 244 P. ISBN: 9781837720507, 170 (Word file)

Harish Goutam. Lisa Mitchell. Hailing the state. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 320 P. ISBN: 9781478018766, 172 (Word file)

Katya Herberg. Ludovik Slimak. The naked Neanderthal. London: Penguin 2023. 208 P. ISBN: 9781802061819, 174 (Word file)

Loki Hu. Stéphanie Homola. The art of fate calculation: practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng. New York: Berghahn Books 2023. 374 P. ISBN: 9781800738126, 176 (Word file)

Natalia Lopez. Deborah A. Thomas and Joseph Masco, eds. Sovereignty unhinged: an illustrated primer  for the study of present intensities, disavowals, and temporal derangements. Durham: Duke University Press. 360 P. ISBN: 9781478019084, 178 (Word file)

Natasha Durie. Anne Allison. Being dead otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press 2023. 256 P. ISBN: 978147801984-8, 180 (Word file)

Wesley Chan. Saskia Witteborn. Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2023. 250 P. ISBN: 9781503634305, 182 (Word file)

Yu Furukawa. Andrea Wright. Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2021. 288 P. ISBN: 9781503629516, 184 (Word file)

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Special issue: Uncertainty and survivance: what remains after the crisis?

• Guest editor: Wesam Hassan

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Wesam Hassan, Introduction - Uncertainty and survivance: what remains after the crisis?, 4-14 (Word version)

1 Naomi Marshall, Context matters: utilising Vizenor’s theory of Native survivance to explain experiences of genetic difference in England and Wales, 15-30 (Word version)

2 Alexia Liakounakou, Bodies-in-crisis: beauty, narrative, and the management of dispersal, 31-46 (Word version)

3 Molly Acheson, Austerity as disabling: the state and uncertainty in the futures of children with disabilities, 47-68 (Word version)

4 Wesam Hassan, The phantasm of luck: a precariat’s notion of survivance in Istanbul, 69-90 (Word version)

5 Mariz Kelada, Media’s street politics: invisible infrastructures of filming in Cairo, 91-113 (Word version)

6 Freya Hope, ‘There will always be Travellers’: certainty as survivance in a new alternative world?, 114-133 (Word version)

7 Sanne Rotmeijer, The lottery of life: practices of survivance, future orientation, and everyday news routines on a Dutch Caribbean island, 134-153 (Word version)

8 Julio Rodríguez Stimson, Farming paradise: COVID-19 and the coexistential rift, 154-177 (Word version)

9 Akira Shah, Digital ethnography in COVID-19: improvisation and intimacy, 178-193 (Word version)

10 Peyton Cherry, Under pressure and voicing up: Japanese youth tackling gender issues, 194-217 (Word version)

11 Gilda Borriello, Chasing possible futures: refugee entrepreneurs navigating uncertainty, 218-242 (Word version)

12 Gabrielle Maria Masi, Turning uncertainty into risk: cultural heritage and Western subjectivity models among unsuccessful return migrants of the Central Mediterranean route (Velingara, Senegal), 243-261 (Word version)

13 Chloe Mei Yee Wong-Mersereau, Conjuring the crisis-imaginary: critical discourse analysis and auto-ethnographic reflections on the Canadian Red Cross, 262-281 (Word version)

Book reviews

Camelia Dewan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2022, 245 p. ISBN 9780295749617, reviewed by Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay, 282-283 (Word version)

Philip A. Clarke. Aboriginal peoples and birds in Australia: historical and cultural relationships. Clayton: CSIRO publishing 2023. 344 p. ISBN 9781486315970, reviewed by Daniel A. Villar, 284-286 (Word version)

Gwen Burnyeat. The face of peace: government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2022. 320 p. ISBN: 9780226821627, reviewed by David Gellner, 287-289 (Word version)

Peter Metcalf. The anthropology of religion and the worlds of the independent thinkers. London: Routledge 2023. 216 p. ISBN: 1000782387, reviewed by David Zeitlyn, 290-291 (Word version)

Juan Manuel Del Nido. Taxis vs. Ubers: courts, markets, and technology in Buenos Aires. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2021. 256 p. ISBN: 9781503611528, reviewed by Hongshan Wang, 292-294 (Word version)

Gaye Sculthorpe, Maria Nugent, and Howard Morphy (eds.) Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums. London: British Museum Press 2021. 247 p. ISBN: 9780714124902, reviewed by Jack Norris, 295-297 (Word version)

Arnd Schneider. Expanded visions: a new anthropology of the moving image. London and New York: Routledge 2021. 194 p. ISBN: 9780367253684, reviewed by Jordan Gorenberg, 298-300 (Word version)

Carol V. McKinney. Baranzan’s people: an ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria. Dallas: SIL International 2019. 265 p. ISBN: 9781556713996, reviewed by Kefas Lamak, 301-302 (Word version)

Luiz Bolognesi. The last forest. Santa Monica: Laemmle Monica Film Center 2021. 76 minutes, colour, reviewed by Maria Murad, 303-304 (Word version)

Robert O’Mochain and Yuki Ueno. Sexual abuse and education in Japan: in the (inter) national shadows. Abingdon: Routledge 2022. 222 p. ISBN: 9781032310237, reviewed by Peyton Cherry, 305-307 (Word version)

Francesca Sobande and Layla-Roxanne Hill. Black oot here: Black lives in Scotland. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2022. 248 p. ISBN: 9781913441333, reviewed by Riya Gosrani, 308-309 (Word version)

Nobuhiro Kishigami (ed.) World whaling: historical and contemporary studies. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology [Senri Ethnological Series 104] 2021. 358 p. ISBN: 978-4-906962-87-7, reviewed by Róisín Kennelly, 310-312 (Word version)

Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. Franz Baermann Steiner: a stranger in the world. London and New York: Berghahn 2021. 290 p. ISBN: 9781800732704, reviewed by Shannon Lin, 313-314 (Word version)

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Editorial, 3 (Word version)

1. Christopher Morton, Dwelling practices and the reproduction of marginality among the Mbanderu of Ngamiland, Botswana, 5-30 (Word version)

2. David Zeitlyn, Arguments for humility: lessons for anthropologists from six texts, 31-46 (Word version)

3. Marcus Banks, Good morning! Memes and the visual economy of images in contemporary India, 47-62 (Word version)

4. Howard Morphy, Marcus Banks and R.H. Barnes, Fear and anthropology: a view from 1995, 63-83 (Word version)

Anthropology in translation (JASO occasional series)
Editors’ introduction, 84 (Word version)

5. Ismaël Moya (translated by David Zeitlyn), An aesthetics of norm-adherence: discourse and power in matrimonial and maraboutic relationships in Dakar, 85-100 (Word version)

6. Felix Rolt,  Reflections on modern sovereigns. Review Essay: Joseph Tonda. The modern sovereign: the body of power in Central Africa, trans. Chris Turner. London: Seagull Books 2021, ISBN 9780857426888, 101-105 (Word version)

Book reviews

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Brazilian authoritarianism: past and present. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2022, 328 p. ISBN 9780691210919, reviewed by Sebastian Antoine, 106-107 (Word version)

Eve Darian-Smith. Global burning: rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2022, 230 p. ISBN 9781503631083, reviewed by Elaine (Yiling) Hu, 108-109 (Word version)

Pascal Ménoret. Graveyard of clerics: everyday activism in Saudi Arabia. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2020, 264 p. ISBN 9781503612464, reviewed by Frederike Brockhoven, 110-112 (Word version)

Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi. Pious peripheries: runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2021, 256 p. ISBV 9781503614710, reviewed by Juliette Foulon, 113-115 (Word version)

Leah Zani. Strike patterns: notes from postwar Laos. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022, 208 p. ISBN 9781503611733, reviewed by Luise Eder, 116-117 (Word version)

Aparecida Vilaça. Paletó and me: memories of my indigenous father, trans. David Rodgers. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2021, 232 p. ISBN 9781503629332, reviewed by Niklas Hartmann, 118-120 (Word version)

Sophie Chao. In the shadow of the palms: more-than-human becomings in West Papua. Durham: Duke University Press 2022, 336 p. ISBN 9781478018247, reviewed by Sebastian Antoine, 121-123 (Word version)

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Special issue: LESSONS LEARNT FROM A PANDEMIC: COVID-19 IN PERSPECTIVE

Guest editors: Elisabeth Hsu, Paola Esposito, Paula Sheppard, Stanley Ulijaszek

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Table of contents

I. Setting the scene, 2-10

Elisabeth Hsu, Lessons learnt from a pandemic: outline, 2-4

Sonora English, Staging the COVID-19 pandemic: revisiting Rosenberg’s dramaturgical form of epidemics, 4-10

II. Policies and predispositions, 11-24

Aya Ahmad, Zihan Xu and Yibing Liu, Data surveillance as an ideological priority? 11-14 

Aya Ahmad, Zihan Xu and Yibing Liu, Mask-wearing as a cultural practice, 14-19

Elisabeth Hsu, Policies and predispositions: reflections on the limitations of culturalism, 19-24

III. Efficacious metaphors? 25-51

Yasmynn Chowdhury, The militarization of COVID-19 as a disease and a sickness, 25-34

Gillian Chan, How mild is ‘mild’ COVID-19? 35-41

Paola Esposito, Multimodal biosocialities, 41-51

IV. Reproducing inequalities, 52-69

Gillian Chan and Dora Lan, Inequality shaping epidemics, epidemics reproducing inequality: intersectionality and COVID-19, 52-60

Sarah Spellman, Clapping for carers: reproducing inequality during COVID-19, 61-67

Paula Sheppard, Reproducing inequalities, 68-69

V. Outlook: coevolution and ecological public health, 70-75

Sonora English, Stanley Ulijaszek and Anja Selmer, Coevolution and the emergence of disease: ecological thinking in public health and beyond, 70-75

BOOK REVIEWS, 77-102 (word file)

Abigal A. Dumes, Divided bodies: Lyme disease, contested illness, and evidence-based medicine, reviewed by Jordan Gorenberg, 77-79

Nicholas Q. Emlen, Language, coffee, and migration on an Andean-Amazonian frontier, reviewed by Sabine Parrish, 79-81

Michael G. Flaherty, Lotte Meinert and Anne Line Dalsgård (eds.) Time work: studies of temporal agency, reviewed by Eveliina Kuitunen, 81-84

Jack Glazier, Anthropology and radical humanism, reviewed by Shelvis Smith-Mather, 84-86

A. Golubev, The things of life: materiality in late Soviet Russia, reviewed by Emma Rimpiläinen, 86-88

Lesley Green, Rock |Water | Life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa, reviewed by Tiffany Teng, 88-90

Benno Herzog, The invisibilization of suffering: the moral grammar of disrespect, reviewed by Mikaela Brough, 90-92

Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin bronzes, colonial violence, and cultural restitution, reviewed by Sabrina Illiano, 93-95   

Bruno Latour and P. Weibel, Critical zones: the science and politics of landing on earth, reviewed by Quentin Louis, 95-97

Eugene Richardson, Epidemic illusions: on the coloniality of global public health, reviewed by Aneel Singh Brar, 97-100

Charles Stafford, Economic life in the real world: logic, emotion and ethics, reviewed by Prajol Gurung, 100-102

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Kaoru Nishijima, The Dayak ‘kingdom’ and indigenous sovereignty in Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan, 103-129 (Word file)

Göran Aijmer, The enigmatic clans of the Palaung: kinship clusters and continuity in Upper Burma, 130-154 (Word file)

Felix Padel, Towards an anthropology of spies and intelligence agencies, 155-194 (Word file)

Shubhra Murarka, Review article: Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Border of Settler States, 195-200 (Word file)

BOOK REVIEWS, 201-205 (Word file)

Rebecca Cassidy, Vicious games: capitalism and gambling, reviewed by Wesam Hassan,  201-204

Jennifer Erickson, Race-ing Fargo: refugees, citizenship, and the transformation of small cities, reviewed by Judit Molnár , 204-205

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