Ethnos, Volume 88, Issue 4 (2023)

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Governing Opacity:The Politics of Intentions and Legibility

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Governing Opacity: Regimes of Intention Management and Tools of Legibility
Natalia Buitron & Hans Steinmüller
Pages: 677-701
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Demanding from Others: How Ancestors and Shamans Govern Opacity in the Kalahari
Megan Laws
Pages: 702-723
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Anarchists for the State: From Egalitarian Opacity to Anticipating Thoughts of the Powerful
Rupert Stasch
Pages: 724-748
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Rule of Self and Rule of Law: Governing Opacity Among the Shuar of Amazonia
Natalia Buitron
Pages: 749-773
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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State, Mind, and Legibility Without Writing in the Wa State of Myanmar
Hans Steinmüller
Pages: 774-796
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Governing Through Opacity: Customary Authority, Hidden Intentions, and Oil Infrastructure Development in Suai, Timor-Leste
Judith Bovensiepen
Pages: 797-818
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Original Power Pointing: Legibility and Opacity in the Deictic Field
Thomas Widlok
Pages: 819-836
Published online: 16 Dec 2021
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Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene
Alyssa Paredes
Pages: 837-863
Published online: 25 Apr 2021
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Eating, Eschatology, Expectation: Fasting and Salvation in Serbian Orthodox Christianity
Nicholas Lackenby
Pages: 864-881
Published online: 05 May 2021
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On Roots and Wings: Celebrating Jugendweihe as Coming-of-Age in Peri-Urban Eastern Germany
Grit Wesser
Pages: 882-899
Published online: 09 May 2021
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The Char and the Oystercatcher. The Value of the Wild in Rossfjord, North Norway
Bror Olsen
Pages: 900-919
Published online: 09 May 2021
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Book Reviews

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The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge
by Minhua Ling, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, 270 pp, $28 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781503609976, ISBN: 9781503610767 (paperback), ISBN: 9781503610774 (ebook).
Suvi Rautio
Pages: 920-922
Published online: 29 Dec 2021
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Economic life in the real world: logic, emotion, and ethics
by Charles Stafford, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2020, 214 pp., $28.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781108673426
Sarah Muir
Pages: 922-923
Published online: 06 Jan 2022
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A Future History of Water
by Andrea Ballestero, Durham, Duke University Press, 2019, 248 pp., $25.95, ISBN: 978-1-4780-0389-2 (paper), ISBN: 978-1-4780-0359-5 (cloth).
Émilie Dionne
Pages: 924-925
Published online: 14 Mar 2022
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