{"title":"Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff (ed.). Performing craft in Mexico: artisans, aesthetics, and the power of translation. 330 pp., maps, figs, bibliogr. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2022. £90.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14297","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"952-953"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England","authors":"Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14294","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure. Departing from the focus on practice and posthuman relations in many recent ethnographies of healthcare, we attend to inequalities between perspectives on organizational change, exploring the hidden work involved in producing improvements to care quality in a public general hospital. Putting practice in perspective, we shed light on relations between the emergent politics of bureaucracy and more contentious politics of healthcare. Reflecting on connections between the posthuman turn and rationales of management, we emphasize the need to view social science theory in its broader social context, and examine practices of work, care and management from bottom‐up points of view.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paerregaard, Karsten. Andean meltdown: a climate ethnography of water, power, and culture in Peru. 210 pp., 19 illus., bibliogr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. £25.00 (paper)","authors":"Chakad Ojani","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14296","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"950-960"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Munhoz, Sara Regina. A paixão do acesso: uma etnografia das ferramentas digitais e da jurisprudência do Superior Tribunal de Justiça. 366 pp., bibliogr. São Paulo: Hucitec Editora, 2024. R$79.00 (paper)","authors":"João Gilberto Belvel Fernandes Júnior","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14302","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"958-959"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roque, Paula Cristina. Governing in the shadows: Angola's securitised state. 264 pp., bibliogr. London: Hurst, 2022. £22.00 (paper)","authors":"Jeremy Ball","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14304","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"959-960"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guadeloupe, Francio. Black man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean anthropology. 226 pp., bibliogr. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2022. $35.00 (paper)","authors":"Deborah A. Thomas","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14298","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"953-954"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley imperialism: techno fantasies and frictions in postsocialist times. 296 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2024. $27.95 (paper)","authors":"Junnan Mu","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14305","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"956-957"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latif, Rusha. Tahrir's youth: leaders of a leaderless revolution. 356 pp., bibliogr. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022. £29.99 (hardcover)","authors":"Ramy Aly","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14303","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"957-958"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abadía-Barrero, César. Health in ruins: the capitalist destruction of medical care at a Colombian maternity hospital. 287 pp., illus., notes, bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. £18.91 (paper)","authors":"María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14300","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"954-955"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14287","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 S1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}