Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

© Royal Anthropological Institute

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June 2012

Volume 18, Issue 2

Pages 247–513

  1. Original Articles

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. What I'm reading
    4. Review article
    5. Reviews
    6. Books and films received
    1. Dreams from Elsewhere: Muslim subjectivities beyond the trope of self-cultivation (pages 247–265)

      AMIRA MITTERMAIER

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01742.x

    2. Horse versus machine: battles in the betting shop (pages 266–284)

      REBECCA CASSIDY

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01743.x

    3. ‘Dancing the image’: materiality and spirituality in Andean religious ‘images’ (pages 285–310)

      NICO TASSI

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01744.x

    4. Negotiating impartial indicators: putting transparency into practice in the EU (pages 311–329)

      RENITA THEDVALL

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01745.x

    5. ‘A wondrous adventure’: mutuality and individuality in Internet adoption narratives (pages 330–348)

      PALOMA GAY Y BLASCO

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01746.x

    6. Disjunctive comparison: citizenship and trade unionism in Bolivia and Argentina (pages 349–368)

      SIAN LAZAR

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01747.x

    7. Photography and the comparative method: the construction of an anthropological archive (pages 369–396)

      CHRISTOPHER MORTON

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01748.x

    8. Culture and the absurd: the means and meanings of Aboriginal identity in the time of cultural revivalism (pages 397–417)

      GILLIAN COWLISHAW

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01749.x

    9. Pastoral intensification in West Africa: implications for sustainability (pages 418–438)

      MARK MORITZ

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01750.x

    10. Cultural anthropology and the question of knowledge (pages 439–453)

      JOHANNES FABIAN

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01751.x

  2. What I'm reading

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. What I'm reading
    4. Review article
    5. Reviews
    6. Books and films received
    1. Occupy economic anthropology (pages 454–460)

      BILL MAURER

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01752.x

  3. Review article

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. What I'm reading
    4. Review article
    5. Reviews
    6. Books and films received
    1. Co-operation and the origins of spoken language (pages 461–465)

      ESTHER N. GOODY

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01753.x

  4. Reviews

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. What I'm reading
    4. Review article
    5. Reviews
    6. Books and films received
    1. The Copan Sculpture Museum: ancient Maya artistry in stucco and stone – By Barbara W. Fash (pages 466–467)

      ANNCORINNE FRETER

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754.x

    2. Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany – By Chris Scarre (pages 467–468)

      KATINA T. LILLIOS

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_2.x

    3. Behavioral archaeology: principles and practice – By Michael Brian Schiffer (pages 468–469)

      JOHN MANLEY

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_3.x

    4. Indonesian houses (vol. 2): survey of vernacular architecture in western Indonesia – Edited by Reimar Schefold, Peter J.M. Nas, Gaudenz Domenig & Robert Wessing (pages 469–470)

      STEPHANIE BUNN

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_4.x

    5. Landscapes of movement: trails, paths, and roads in anthropological perspective – Edited by James E. Snead, Clark L. Erickson & J. Andrew Darling (pages 470–471)

      TANYA ARGOUNOVA-LOW

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_5.x

    6. Indispensable eyesores: an anthropology of undesired buildings – By Mélanie van der Hoorn (pages 471–472)

      TREVOR H.J. MARCHAND

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_6.x

    7. A companion to biological anthropology – Edited by Clark Spencer Larsen (pages 472–473)

      BRIAN VILLMOARE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_7.x

    8. The long way home: the meaning and values of repatriation – Edited by Paul Turnbull & Michael Pickering (page 474)

      SUE BLACK

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_8.x

    9. The participation reader – Edited by Andrea Cornwall (pages 475–476)

      KATE HAMPSHIRE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_9.x

    10. Ethnographic practice and public aid: methods and meanings in development cooperation – Edited by Sten Hagberg & Charlotta Widmark (pages 476–477)

      EMMA CREWE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_10.x

    11. The battle against hunger: choice, circumstance, and the World Bank – By Devi Sridhar (pages 477–478)

      BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_11.x

    12. Childhood and violence in the Western tradition – Edited by Laurence Brockliss & Heather Montgomery (pages 478–479)

      COLIN HEYWOOD

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_12.x

    13. Governing educational desire: culture, politics, and schooling in China – By Andrew B. Kipnis (pages 479–480)

      METTE HALSKOV HANSEN

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_13.x

    14. Aboriginal family and the state: the conditions of history – By Sally Babidge (pages 480–481)

      JAMES F. WEINER

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_14.x

    15. China and postsocialist anthropology: theorizing power and society after Communism – By Andrew Kipnis (pages 481–483)

      HANS STEINMÜLLER

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_15.x

    16. The powerful presence of the past: integration and conflict along the Upper Guinea coast – Edited by Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (pages 483–484)

      PAUL RICHARDS

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_16.x

    17. Mayas in postwar Guatemala: harvest of violence revisited – Edited by Walter E. Little & Timothy Smith (pages 484–485)

      J.P. LINSTROTH

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_17.x

    18. Security and suspicion: an ethnography of everyday life in Israel – By Juliana Ochs (pages 485–486)

      ANDREW GEE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_18.x

    19. Law and war in rural Kenya – By Suzette Heald (pages 486–487)

      NOAM OSBAND

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_19.x

    20. Public justice and the anthropology of law – By Ronald Niezen (pages 487–488)

      ANTHONY GOOD

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_20.x

    21. Medicine for uncertain futures: a Nigerian city in the wake of a crisis – By Ulrika Andersson Trovalla (pages 488–489)

      MURRAY LAST

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_21.x

    22. Technologized images, technologized bodies – Edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey & Peter Wade (pages 489–490)

      KATHLEEN RICHARDSON

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_22.x

    23. HIV is God's blessing: rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia – By Jarrett Zigon (pages 490–491)

      KATHRYN TOMLINSON

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_23.x

    24. Hip-hop Japan: rap and the paths of cultural globalization – By Ian Condry (pages 491–493)

      MELISA RIVIERE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_24.x

    25. Berber culture on the world stage: from village to video – By Jane E. Goodman (pages 493–494)

      AOMAR BOUM

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_25.x

    26. Stambeli: music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia – By Richard C. Jankowsky (pages 494–495)

      RODNEY COLLINS

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_26.x

    27. Believing in belonging: belief and social identity in the modern world – By Abby Day (pages 495–496)

      JONATHAN BENTHALL

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_27.x

    28. Nation, language, Islam: Tatarstan's sovereignty movement – By Helen M. Faller (pages 496–497)

      ELENI SIDERI

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_28.x

    29. Political spiritualities: the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria – By Ruth Marshall (pages 497–498)

      ELISHA P. RENNE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_29.x

    30. Reconceiving the second sex: men, masculinity, and reproduction – Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helene Goldberg & Maruska la Cour Mosegaard (pages 498–499)

      ISAK NIEHAUS

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_30.x

    31. Native men remade: gender and nation in contemporary Hawai‘i – By Ty P. Kāwika Tengan (pages 499–500)

      KAORI O'CONNOR

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_31.x

    32. Remains of ritual: northern gods in a southern land – By Steven M. Friedson (pages 500–501)

      WYATT MACGAFFEY

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_32.x

    33. Nature's embrace: Japan's aging urbanites and new death rites – By Satsuki Kawano (pages 501–503)

      LOUELLA MATSUNAGA

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_33.x

    34. Internet and change: an anthropology of knowledge and flexible work – By Jens Kjaerulff (pages 503–504)

      NICK SWANN

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_34.x

    35. Pollution, untouchability and Harijans – By Yasumasa Sekine (pages 504–505)

      MARY SEARLE-CHATTERJEE

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_35.x

    36. Ordinary ethics: anthropology, language, and action – Edited by Michael Lambek (pages 505–506)

      DOMINIC MARTIN

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_36.x

    37. The science of passionate interests: an introduction to Gabriel Tarde's Economic anthropology – By Bruno Latour & Vincent Antonin Lépinay (pages 506–507)

      MATEI CANDEA

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_37.x

    38. City/art: the urban scene in Latin America – Edited by Rebecca E. Biron (pages 507–508)

      KRISTIN NORGET

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_38.x

    39. Urban pollution: cultural meanings, social practices – Edited by Eveline Dürr & Rivke Jaffe (pages 508–509)

      CRESSIDA JERVIS READ

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_39.x

    40. Ghetto at the center of the world: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong – By Gordon Mathews (pages 509–510)

      RUTH E. TOULSON

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01754_40.x

  5. Books and films received

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. What I'm reading
    4. Review article
    5. Reviews
    6. Books and films received
    1. Books and films received (pages 511–513)

      Article first published online: 2 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01755.x

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