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Editorial

• Editorial: JRAI cover redesign - Elizabeth Hallam p. 7-9

Original Articles

• Anthropology's ‘impact': a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique - Felix Stein p. 10-29
• Beyond the everyday: sustaining kinship in western Kenya - Elizabeth Cooper p. 30-46
• For an anthropology of the demoralized: state pay, mock-labour, and unfreedom in a Serbian firm - Ivan Rajković p. 47-70
• Can respect be key to gender justice? - Marit Tolo Østebø p. 71-89
• Anthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique - Johan Rasanayagam p. 90-106
• Digital aspirations: ‘wrong-number' mobile-phone relationships and experimental ethics among women entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh - Julia Qermezi Huang p. 107-125
• Loving recognition: a proposal for the practical efficacy of love as a public virtue - Nigel Rapport p. 126-144
• Managing alterity from within: the ontological turn in anthropology and indigenous efforts to shape shamanism - Juliet Erazo and Christopher Jarrett p. 145-163
• Going to ‘Pentecost': how to study Pentecostalism – in Melanesia, for example - Annelin Eriksen p. 164-180

Review articles

• Beck, Sam & Maida Carl A. [Eds]. Public anthropology in a borderless world, 2015. Jensen, Casper Bruun & Brit Ross Winthereik. Monitoring movements in development aid: recursive partnerships and infrastructures, 2013 - Marlee Tichenor p. 181-183
• Darnell, Regna & Frederic W. Gleach [Eds]. Corridor talk to culture history: public anthropology and its consequences, 2015. Hedican, Edward J. Public anthropology: engaging social issues in the modern world, 2016. Pink, Sarah & Simone Abram [Eds]. Media, anthropology and public engagement, 2015 - Eric Haanstad p. 184-187

Book reviews

• Critical issues

  • Carlo Caduff. The pandemic perhaps: dramatic events in a public culture of danger, 2015 - A. David Napier p. 188-189
  • Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Overheating: an anthropology of accelerated change, 2016 - David N. Gellner p. 189-190
  • Hariman, Robert & Ralph Cintron [Eds]. Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric: the texture of political action, 2015 - Michael B. Carrithers p. 190-191
  • Paul Richards. Ebola: how a people's science helped end an epidemic, 2017 - Mike Callaghan p. 191-192

• Figuring the feminine

  • Richard Baxstrom & Todd Meyers. Realizing the witch: science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible, 2015 - Pamela A. Moro p. 192-193
  • Deirdre De La Cruz. Mother figured: Marian apparitions and the making of a Filipino universal, 2016 - Manuel Victor J. Sapitula p. 193-194
  • Sondra L. Hausner The spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: time, ritual, and sexual commerce in London, 2016 - Dougles Ezzy p. 194-195
  • Lewin, Ellen & Leni M. Silverstein (eds). Mapping feminist anthropology in the twenty-first century, 2016 - Pamela L. Geller p. 195-196
  • Carolyn Martin Shaw. Women and power in Zimbabwe: promises of feminism, 2015 - Amin Kamete p. 196-197
  • Akiko Takeyama. Staged seduction: selling dreams in a Tokyo host club, 2016 - Emma E. Cook p. 197-198
  • Elvi Whittaker [Ed.]. Solitudes of the workplace: women in universities, 2016 - Rebecca Lund p. 198-199

• History, memory, and heritage

  • Alexander C. Bennett Kendo: culture of the sword, 2015 - Paul Bowman p. 199-200
  • Yarimar Bonilla. Non-sovereign futures: French Caribbean politics in the wake of disenchantment, 2015 - Huon Wardle p. 200-201
  • Brumann, Christoph & David Berliner [Eds]. World Heritage on the ground: ethnographic perspectives, 2016 - Andrew M. Law p. 201-202
  • Glynn Custred. A history of anthropology as a holistic science, 2016 - Alan Barnard p. 202-203
  • Kristen Ghodsee. The left side of history: World War II and the unfulfilled promise of communism in Eastern Europe, 2015 - Dace Dzenovska p. 203-204
  • Jon Røyne Kyllingstad. Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, 2015 - Iris Clever p. 204-205
  • R. Lee Lyman. Theodore E. White and the development of zooarchaeology in North America, 2016 - Pam J. Crabtree p. 205-206
  • Robert Oppenheim. An Asian frontier: American anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945, 2016 - Kwang-Ok Kim p. 206-207
  • Gísli Pálsson. The man who stole himself: the slave odyssey of Hans Jonathan, 2016 - Paul Durrenberger p. 207-208
  • Geoffrey M. White Memorializing Pearl Harbor: unfinished histories and the work of remembrance, 2016 - Dacia Viejo Rose p. 208-209

• Labour

  • Leila Zaki Chakravarti. Made in Egypt: gendered identity and aspiration on the globalised shop floor, 2016 - Chihab El Khachab p. 209-210
  • Tom Gill. Yokohama street life: the precarious career of a Japanese day labourer, 2015 - Louella Matsunaga p. 210-211
  • Kasmir, Sharryn & August Carbonella [Eds]. Blood and fire: toward a global anthropology of labor, 2014 - David Haines p. 211-212

• Varieties of experience

  • Jon Bialecki. A diagram for fire: miracles and variation in an American charismatic movement, 2017 - Adam Reed p. 212-213
  • Das, Veena & Clara Han [Eds]. Living and dying in the contemporary world: a compendium, 2016 - Bob Simpson p. 213-214
  • Marisol De La Cadena. Earth beings: ecologies of practice across Andean worlds, 2015 - Elizabeth Ewart p. 214-215
  • Lisa Messeri. Placing outer space: an earthly ethnography of other worlds, 2016 - John W. Traphagan p. 215-216
  • Kevin Lewis O'Neill. Secure the soul: Christian piety and gang prevention in Guatemala, 2015 - Jon Bialecki p. 216-217
  • Bjørn Thomassen. Liminality and the modern: living through the in-between, 2014 - Katherine Swancutt p. 217-218
  • Joseba Zulaika. That old Bilbao moon: the passion and resurrection of a city, 2014 - IIsaac Marrero-Guillamón p. 218-219

Books and films received