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Chinese music and translated modernity in Shanghai, 1918--1937	The shadows of immobility: Low-wage work, single mothers' lives and workplace culture

Fashioning the nation: Hairdressing, professionalism and the performance of gender in Ghana, 1900--2006	The walls of the labyrinth: Impunity, corruption, and the limits of politics in contemporary Argentina

Land and seeds: The cultural, ecological, and global politics of organic agriculture in Latvia and Costa Rica	Between text and talk: Expertise, normativity, and scales of belonging in the Montreal Tamil diasporas

Reinventing equality: The archaeology of Kirikongo, Burkina Faso	Genealogies of al-Andalus: Music and patrimony in the modern Maghreb

Lutheran in two worlds: Remaking mission from Madagascar to the Midwest United States	The politics of minority Chaldeans between Iraq and America

Wild dreams: Refashioning production in Bristol Bay, Alaska	The deteriorating histories in the public everyday space of post-Francoist Barcelona

How tomorrow precedes yesterday: Visions of time and locations of authority for Muslims in the Fouta Djallon, Guinea	Forms and methods: Teaching atheism and religion in the Mari Republic, Russian Federation

Words matter: The role of discourse in creating, sustaining, and changing school culture	Musical Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule: A historical and ethnomusicological interpretation

Class, community, and materiality in a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood: An archaeology of Hampden-Woodberry	The Matitanana archaeological project: Culture history and social complexity in the Seven Rivers Region of southeastern Madagascar

Constructions of childhood in apartheid's last decades	Social change and the Thai house: A study of transformation in the traditional dwelling of Central Thailand

Ayurveda in the age of biomedicine: Discursive asymmetries and counter-strategies	Exile history: An ethnography of the SWAPO camps and the Namibian nation

Composite masculinities: Aging, illness, erectile dysfunction and Mexican manhood	The value of a voice: Culture and critique in Kazakh Aitys poetry

French famliies, paper facts: Genetics, writing, and intimate histories	Roman agricultural magic

Communicating change in a transforming state: Globalization and the politics of office communication in urban Russia	Governing rights in La Reunion: Social legislation, landholding, housing and the making of France in the Indian Ocean, 1946-2009

Contact and contrast in valley Spanish	Authentic Arabs, authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the mobilization of cultural identity

Searching for heritage, building politics: Architecture, archaeology, and imageries of social order in Romania (1947--2007)	The Narratives of Interfaith Parents Raising Their Children With Jewish Identities: An Emerging Discourse

The blessed placemakers: Violent crime, moral transformation, and urban redevelopment in post-Katrina New Orleans	Making Care Work: Sustaining Personhood and Reproducing Inequality in Home Care of Older Adults in Chicago, IL

Tipping Scales with Talk: Conversation, Commerce, and Obligation on the Edge of Thanjavur, India	Andalusian Encounters: Immigration, Islam, and Regional Identity in Southern Spain

Education in the language of conflict: Linguistic and social practice among Sri Lankan ethnic minority youth	Othering National Identity Alterity and Indigenous Activism in Otavalo, Ecuador

Musicking Tradition in Place: Participation, Values, and Banks in Bamileke Territory	Transplanting Kinship: Transplantation, Kin Relatedness, and Daily Home Life in the U.S. Midwest

Social mediation and social analysis: The discourse of marginality in a theater of war	Socializing landscapes, naturalizing conflict: Environmental discourses and land conflict in the Negev region of Israel

Shifting Publics and Shifting Alignments in a Sprachinsel of Southern Brazil	Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire 1939--1946

Syria's New Neoliberal Elite: English Usage, Linguistic Practices and Group Boundaries	The Moral Dilemmas of Nighttime Breastfeeding: Crafting Kinship, Personhood and Capitalism in the U.S.

Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Missionaries, Foreign Rulers, and Christian Narratives (ca. 300--900)	Migrant Stories: Zapotec Transborder Migration and the Production of a Narrated Community

A Forest for a Thousand Years: Cultivating Life and Disciplining Death at Daihonzan Sojiji, a Japanese Soto Zen Temple	Dining in Bethlehem: Food, Charity, and Growing Old in Bogota

Knowledge and Authority in Shift: A Linguistic Ethnography of Multilingual News Media in the Buryat Territories of Russia	Infected Kin: AIDS, Orphan Care and the Family in Lesotho

Healing environmental harms: Social change and Sukuma traditional medicine on Tanzania's extractive frontier	When the Black Kids Moved In: Racial Reproduction and the Promise of Intergroup Dialogue in an Exurban High School

Taking Better Care of the Fields: Knowledge Politics of Sugar Beet, Soil, and Agriculture after Socialism in Western Poland