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Review of Administering Affect: Pop‐Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety By Daniel White, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Michael Berman

May 17, 2024

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Review of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India By Michele Ilana Friedner, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 269 pp.

Alicia Wright

May 17, 2024

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Review of The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction By Sallie Han, Cecília Tomori (Eds.), Oxford: Routledge. 2022. 676 pp.

Emma Varley

May 17, 2024

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Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice By Melissa Checker, New York: NYU Press. 2020. 280 pp.

Keri Vacanti Brondo

May 17, 2024

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Review of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By Matthew C. Canfield, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 264 pp.

Ash McLeod

May 17, 2024

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Review of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk By Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 142 pp.

Mara H. Buchbinder

May 17, 2024

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Review of Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease By Alexandre I.R. White, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. 304 pp.

Agustin Fuentes

May 17, 2024

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Review of Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and Power By Nancy E. Riley and Nilanjana Chatterjee, Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press. 2023. 224 pp.

Jessica L. Lott

May 17, 2024

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Review of Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India By Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 211 pp.

Tawni Tidwell

March 9, 2024

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Review of An Imperative to Cure Principles and Practices of Q'eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize By James B. Waldram, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2020. 271 pp.

Miguel Cuj

March 9, 2024