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Down by law: Violence and the work of politics in Kerala, South India	Musical transmissions: Folk music, mediation and modernity in northern Vietnam

Spain in Naples: Building, sculpture, and painting under the viceroys (1585--1621)	Inscriptions of the apparitional: Interrogating ex-Yugoslavia

The spirit of the laws in Mozambique	Staging difference: An ethnography of new-generation Egyptian theatre

Success and failure in cultural markets	The return of the folk and the making of culture in Yan'an, China

"I can manage": The measure and the meaning of daily life among the elderly of Washington Heights in New York City	A language for change: Creativity and power in Mozambican Makonde masked performance, circa 1900--2004

Nietzsche and the Neolithic: An excavation diary	Beyond words on the island of Noepe: Mediating power, 'blood,' and the 'law' in Indigenous New England

Making failure matter in New York City: NCLB, supplemental educational services (SES), the Department of Education (DOE), tutoring companies, and schools	Mourning Indo-Muslim modernity: Moments in post-colonial Urdu literary culture

Signing sounds of the South: Representing culture and performing heritage in Appalachian Virginia	The historical construction of women's associations in twenty-first century Spanish Basque Country

"Humanity must be defended"?	The practice of politics: Feminism, activism and social change in Ireland

Funeral rights: An ethnography of the physical and social deaths of Brazilian "street children"	The impact of international study experiences on the beliefs of prospective mathematicians in Jordan

Dynamics of language education: Preschool practice in Japan	Making sense of paramilitary violence in Colombia. A cultural account

Trading on war: New forms of life in the debris of the state	Instruments of power: New Orleans brass bands and the politics of performance

A tale of two tales: Artisans, transnational folklore, cultural hierarchies, social exclusion, rural poverty, and petty capitalism in Michoacan, Mexico	Indo-Caribbean Hindu practice in Queens: Ethnomethods of constituting place, practice and subjects

On the train: An anthropology of the technosocial in contemporary Japan	The discursive dimension of the Sri Lankan conflict

Difficult music: An ethnography of listening for the avant-garde in Tokyo	Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone

The band carries medicine: Music, healing and community in Haitian/Dominican Rara/Gaga	Class, authenticity, and consumer modernity in provincial China: Ritual feasting in Luzhou, Sichuan

Divining capital: Spectral returns and the commodification of fate in South Korea	Race, multiculturalism, and "childhood": The emergent cosmopolitanisms of kids in a New York City school

The tango machine: Musical practice and cultural policy in the post-crisis Buenos Aires	Queer Beirut: Social transformations in a war-torn city

The liberal arts unbound: Higher education in an American prison, 2005--2006	The aura of pilgrimage: Traveling toward Santiago de Compostela in modern Spain

Coping with traumatic experiences: An analysis of the health benefits of combining music listening with the expressive writing paradigm	Lancaster renaissance: Urban revitalization, heritage tourism, and community archaeology

Markets hidden on thoroughfares: The social construction of economic informality/illegality in Beijing's Zhongguancun, China	The resonance of place: Vocalizing Swahili ethnicity in Mombasa, Kenya

Cultures of indices: Anthropology of Tamil and other cinemas	Fictive capital and economies of desire: A case study of illegal diamond buying and apartheid landscapes in 19th century southern Africa

Suspended community: An ethnographic study of Palestinian-Americans in New York and New Jersey	Exchanges of song Migration, gender, and nation in Nepali dohori performance

Artistiya: Popular music and personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali	Trafficking in meaning: Law, victims, and the state

In partitioned territory: Kinship and belonging in a Palestinian refugee camp	Life is where we are not: Making and managing the plantation Tamil

Fabled futures: Development, gridiron football, and transnational movements in American Samoa	Transforming rural land ownership in southwest China: Local government, village collectives, and rural households in conflict and negotiation

Iranian popular music in Los Angeles: Mobilizing media, nation, and politics	"I will not lose my children": The New York City Ghanaian network village and their academic success pursuits

Memorial modernisms: Remembering the dead in British literature and culture	Viral citizens: The coloniality of HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico

Singing between the Words: The Poetics of Georgian Polyphony	Parental Engagement: Beyond Parental Involvement in Science Education

Governing Flow: The Politics of Water Distribution and Use in Egypt	When All this Revolution Melts into Air: The Disenchantment of Levantine Marxist Intellectuals

Nature, Value and Territory in Alaskan Subsistence Politics: The View from Brown Bear Bay	Admission in Practice: On the Ongoing Production of an Unranked College

Autonomy in Apparitions: Phantom Indian, Selves, and Freedom	The Politics of Loss and the Poetics of Melancholy: A Case Study on Iraqi Turkmen

The Image of the Anti-State: Magic, the Sacred, and Terrestrial Violence in the Zapatista Movement	Diminishing returns: An anthropological study of Iraqis in the UK

Tendrils of Lost Time and the Self An Aesthetic Anthropology of New York City's "Post"-Avant-Garde	Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren

Cosmopolitan Subjects: An Anthropological Critique of Cosmopolitan Criminal Law and Political Modernity	In the House of Change: The Making and Remaking of Female Youth in Residential Treatment

Across a Divide: Mediations of Contemporary Popular Music in Morocco and Spain	Between Kin and King: Social Aspects of Western Zhou Ritual

Ethnographies of contentious criminalization Expansion, ambivalence, marginalization	Parents Speak: An Ethnographic Study of Autism Parents

Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music	"Less is Not Enough" Dilemma of Alternative Primary Schooling Opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India