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Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford-online

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New Series, Volume XVI (2024)

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(ISSN: 2040-1876)

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Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online

ISSN: 2040-1876 New Series, Volume XVI (2024)

CONTENTS (also available as a Word file)

 

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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