Volume 19; Issue 4

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Volume 19; Issue 4

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volume 19; Issue 4

1

Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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2013

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The anthropology of ontology (religious science?)

Scott, Michael W.

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2013

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Playing with perspectives: spirit possession, mimesis, and permeability in the buuta ritual in South India

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2013

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english

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Paxson, Heather. The life of cheese: crafting food and value in America. xiii, 303 pp., tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2013. £19.95 (paper)

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Frederik, Laurie A. Trumpets in the mountains: theater and the politics of national culture in Cuba. xxii, 336 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. £17.99 (paper)

Pertierra, Anna Cristina

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2013

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english

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Weaver, Thomas, James B.Greenberg, William L.Alexander & AnneBrowning-Aiken (eds). Neoliberalism and commodity production in Mexico. xi, 354 pp., maps, figs, tables, bibliogrs. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2012. $65.00 (cloth)

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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2013

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english

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Iqtidar, Humeira. Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in urban Pakistan. xiii, 216 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2011. £26.00 (cloth)

Talib, Mohammad

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2013

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english

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Gottlieb, Alma & Philip Graham. Braided worlds. xiii, 162 pp., maps, figs, bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2012. £13.00 (paper)

Bolten, Catherine E.

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2013

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english

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Tomlinson, Matt. In God's image: the metaculture of Fijian Christianity. xiii, 249 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 2009. £19.95 (paper)

Harrison, David

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2013

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english

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Grover, Shalini. Marriage, love, caste and kinship support: lived experiences of the urban poor in India. xxiii, 231 pp., illus., bibliogr. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2011. Rupees 595 (cloth)

Chakraborty, Kabita

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2013

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The politics of Eros: ritual dialogue and egalitarianism in three Central African hunter-gatherer societies

Finnegan, Morna

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2013

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english

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Huberman, Jenny. Ambivalent encounters: childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India. xv, 227 pp., map, bibliogr. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2013. $28.95 (paper)

Bourdillon, Michael

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2013

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Pierre, Jemima. The predicament of blackness: postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race. xix, 263 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2013. £19.50 (paper)

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A response from the Chagos Conservation Trust to Laura Jeffery

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2013

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Inhorn, Marcia C. The new Arab man: emergent masculinities, technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. xxii, 404 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2012. £24.95 (paper)

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Reply to Simon Hughes

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2013

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Gupta, Akhil. Red tape: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India. xiii, 368 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. £17.99 (paper)

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2013

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english

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Evans-Pritchard and human agency

Mills, Martin A.

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2013

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Morgan, Rhiannon. Transforming law and institution: indigenous peoples, the United Nations and human rights. x, 201 pp., figs, bibliogr. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. £55.00 (cloth)

Venkateswar, Sita

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2013

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english

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Cash, Jennifer R. Villages on stage: folklore and nationalism in the Republic of Moldova. xi, 211 pp., maps, table, illus., figs, bibliogr. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012. €29.90 (paper)

Martin, Dominic

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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2013

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english

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Humphrey, Caroline & VeraSkvirskaja (eds). Post-cosmopolitan cities: explorations of urban coexistence. viii, 250 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. £43.00 (cloth)

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2013

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McCann, James C. Stirring the pot: a history of African cuisine. xiv, 215 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd, 2010. £12.99 (paper)

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2013

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english

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Galan, Christian & EmmanuelLozerand (eds). La famille japonaise moderne (1868-1926): discours et débats. 670 pp., figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2011. €21.00 (paper)

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2013

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Lewis, Laura A. Chocolate and corn flour: history, race, and place in the making of ‘Black’ Mexico. xv, 370 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. £16.99 (paper)

Boehm, Deborah A.

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2013

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english

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Mosse, David. The saint in the banyan tree: Christianity and caste society in India. xx, 385 pp., maps, tables, illlus., bibliogr. Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 2012. £24.95 (paper)

Robinson, Rowena

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2013

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Zavisca, Jane R. Housing the new Russia. xv, 242 pp., figs, illlus, tables, bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. $26.95 (paper)

Martin, Dominic

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2013

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The continuous and discontinuous person: two dimensions of ethical life

Lambek, Michael

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2013

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Index to the Journal of the Royal Anthropolocical Institute

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2013

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Wilkie, Rhoda M. Livestock/deadstock: working with farm animals from birth to slaughter. x, 234 pp., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2010. $30.95 (paper)

Yates-Doerr, Emily

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2013

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Founders, ancestors, and enemies: memory, family, time, and space in the Pernambuco sertão

Marques, Ana Claudia

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2013

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Roy, Srila. Remembering revolution: gender, violence, and subjectivity in India's Naxalbari movement. ix, 252 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2012. £27.50 (cloth)

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2013

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Axelsson, Per & PeterSköld (eds). Indigenous peoples and demography: the complex relation between identity and statistics. xi, 341 pp., map, figs, tables, bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. £75.00 (cloth)

Hampshire, Kate

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2013

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Boehm, Deborah A. Intimate migrations: gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans. xiv, 178 pp., bibliogr. New York: Univ. Press, 2012. £34.00 (cloth)

Alexander, William L.

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2013

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Berghs, Maria. War and embodied memory: becoming disabled in Sierra Leone. xvi, 258 pp., maps, figs, tables, bibliogr. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. £60.00 (cloth)

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2013

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english

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Grandia, Liza. Enclosed: conservation, cattle, and commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya lowlanders. xxix, 278 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Washington: Univ. of Washington Press, 2012. $30.00 (paper)

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2013

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Gershon, Ilana. No family is an island: cultural expertise among Samoans in diaspora. xi, 192 pp., bibliogr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. $22.95 (paper)

Schieder, Dominik

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2013

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english

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Kuzmanovic, Daniella. Refractions of civil society in Turkey. xiv, 211 pp., figs, bibliogr. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave, 2012. £55.00 (cloth)

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2013

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How anthropologists think: configurations of the exotic

Kapferer, Bruce

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2013

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Venkatesan, Soumhya & ThomasYarrow (eds). Differentiating development: beyond an anthropology of critique. vii, 248 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. £59.00 (cloth)

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2013

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english

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Amit, Vered & Nigel Rapport. Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality. xvi, 219 pp., bibliogrs. London, New York: Pluto Press, 2012. £21.99 (cloth)

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2013

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english

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Mahdavi, Pardis. Gridlock: labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai. 251 pp., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2011. $27.95 (paper)

Demetriou, Olga

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2013

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Books and films received

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2013

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Cosmologies of freedom and Buddhist self-transformation in the Mongolian gold rush

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2013

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english

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Abadie, Roberto. The professional guinea pig: big pharma and the risky world of human subjects. xii, 184 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2010. £15.99 (paper)

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2013

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english

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A garden experiment revisited: inter-generational change in environmental perception and management of the Maya Lowlands, Guatemala

le Guen, Olivier, Iliev, Rumen, Lois, Ximena, Atran, Scott, Medin, Douglas L.

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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2013

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english

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Fisher, Melissa S. Wall Street women. xii, 227 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. £14.99 (paper)

Carrier, James G.

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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2013

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english

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