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Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

By Attiya Ahmad

Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance

By Shabnam J. Holliday

Youth and Revolution in the Changing Middle East, 1908-2014

By Haggai Erlich

Lessons in Leadership: Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management

By Eileen Milner, Paul Joyce (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations

By David Knoke

NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning

By Alnoor Ebrahim (Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution

By Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Malmoe University, Sweden)

The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

By Nasser Abufarha

Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900

By Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsen, Heather Bursheh, David A. McDonald, Issa Boulos

Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank

By Yael Berda

Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

By Dawn Chatty

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

By Daniel Monterescu

Social Anthropology of Work

By Sandra Wallman

Fields of Change Among the Iteso of Kenya

By Ivan Karp

Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By Roy Richard Grinker

Psychoanalytic Aspects of Fieldwork

By Jennifer C. Hunt

Across The Boundaries Of Belief: Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion

By Maxine Weisgrau, Morton Klass

Anthropology and Development

By Katy Gardner, David Lewis

Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

By Kalpana Ram (Macquarie University, Sydney), Margaret Jolly (Australian National University, Canberra)

Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa

By Maria Grosz-Ngate, Omari Kokole

The Anthropology of Christianity

By Fenella Cannell

Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

By Gordon Mathews, Carolina Izquierdo

The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks

By Deborah Bryceson, Ulla Vuorela

Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work

By Nigel Parton

Ethical Ambition

By Derrick Bell

Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object

By Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

By Sebastian Junger

Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

By Joseph Ratzinger, Marcello Pera

My Mother, Munchausen's and Me: A true story of betrayal and a shocking family secret

By Helen Naylor

Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

By David D. Gilmore