Ochoa, Marcia. 2014. Queen for a day: transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela (Perverse Modernities: a series edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 296 pp. Pb.: US$19.73. ISBN‐13: 978‐0822356264.

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01 Feb 2017
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© European Association of Social Anthropologists 2017
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Editorial
Special Issue: Key figures of mobility
Review Article
Book Reviews
Albahari, M. 2015. Crimes of peace: Mediterranean migrations at the world's deadliest border. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 288 pp. Pb.: US$65.00. ISBN: 9780812247473.
Cervinkova, Hana, Michal Buchowski and Zdeněk Uherek (eds.) 2015. Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 267 pp. Pb.: US$100. ISBN: 9781137524485.
Chávez, Sergio. 2016. Border lives: fronterizos, transnational migrants, and commuters in Tijuana. New York: Oxford University Press. 203 pp. Pb.: £16.99. ISBN: 9780199380589.
Collins, John F. 2015. Revolt of the saints: memory and redemption in the twilight of Brazilian racial democracy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 480 pp. Pb.: £20.99. ISBN: 9780822353201.
Das, Veena. 2015. Affliction: health, disease, poverty. New York: Fordham University Press. 255 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 9780823261802.
Feldman, Gregory. 2015. We are all migrants: political action and the ubiquitous condition of migrant‐hood. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. 136 pp. Pb.: US$12.99. ISBN: 9780804789332.
Feldman, Ilana. 2015. Police encounters: security and surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian rule. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. 224 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 9780804795340.
Francisco, Martínez and Pille Runnel (eds.) 2015. Hopeless youth! Tartu: Eesti Rahva Muuseum/Estonian National Museum. 544 pp. Pb.: €20. ISBN: 9789949548101.
Gordillo, R. Gastón. 2014. Rubble: the afterlife of destruction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 336 pp. Pb.: US$22.83. ISBN: 978‐0822356196.
Hage, Ghassan. 2015. Alter‐politics. Critical anthropology and the radical imagination. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 241 pp. Pb.: US$59.99. ISBN: 9780522867381.
Jusionyte, Ieva. 2015. Savage frontier: making news and security on the Argentine border. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 304 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520286474.
Kardulias, P. Nick (ed.) 2015. The ecology of pastoralism. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. 272 pp. Hb.: US$70.00. ISBN: 9781607323426.
Konen, Alain. 2014. La mano de Orula. Etnografía sobre Ifá y la santería en La Habana (Proemio de E. Leal, Prefacio de Ph. Jespers). Paris: L'Harmattan. 434 pp. €46. ISBN: 978‐2‐343‐04773‐7. (Translation of Konen, A. 2009. La main des dieux. Rites divinatoires et initiatiques à La Havane. Paris: L'Harmattan.)
Kunstman, Adi and Rebecca Stein. 2015. Digital militarism: Israel's occupation in the social media age. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. 192 pp. Pb.: £15.99. ISBN: 9780804794909.
Malogne‐Fer, Gwendoline and Yannick Fer (eds.) 2015. Femmes et pentecôtismes. Enjeux d'autorité et rapports de genre. Geneva: Labor et Fides. 295 pp. Pb.: €20. ISBN: 9782830915785.
Meinert, Lotte and Bruce Kapferer (eds.) 2015. In the event: toward an anthropology of generic moments. New York: Berghahn Books. 180 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 9781782388890.
Mishtal, Joanna. 2015. The politics of morality: the church, the state, and reproductive rights in postsocialist Poland. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: US$28.85. ISBN‐13: 978‐0821421406.
Monterescu, Daniel. 2015. Jaffa shared and shattered: contrived coexistence in Israel/Palestine. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 384 pp. Pb.: US$32. ISBN: 978‐0‐253‐01677‐5.
Okely, Judith 2013. Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury Academic [First published by Berg in 2012]. xii, 200 pp. Pbk.: $35.95, ISBN: 9781845206031.
Peters, Alicia W. 2015. Responding to human trafficking: sex, gender, and culture in the law. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 pp. Hb.: US$59.95. ISBN: 9780812247336.
Schäuble, Michaela. 2014. Narrating victimhood: gender, religion and the making of place in post‐war Croatia. New York: Berghahn Books. 392 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781782382607.

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