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Under the Same Sky explores the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with Syria, showing how their shared social spaces sustain and transform religious differences. Seçil Daǧtaș offers a nuanced perspective on secularism, religious plurality, and interfaith relations in the Middle East, moving beyond identity-based politics.

Grappling with Mental Illness explores psychiatry’s attempt to monopolize the field of mental illness from the end of World War II to the present day, as well as its interactions with four major social sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, each of which presented its own challenges to psychiatry’s presumed pre-eminence.

Through the stories of trauma experts, Israel Defense Forces officers, local therapists, and residents, Keren Friedman-Peleg reveals how Israel’s psychological aid system in communities bordering Gaza became a battleground of competing interests and contested ideas about how communities should endure, recover, and rebuild.

A small-town Sri Lankan merchant family, their homes, and daily lives reveal how class, kinship, and ambition unfold after war. A Merchant’s House shows how domestic spaces shape social relations, moral decisions, and family futures in ways that reflect the pressures and possibilities of postwar life.

Chola in a Choke Hold grapples with questions of indigeneity and gender by investigating women’s involvement in the world of Bolivian lucha libre. Nell Haynes contends that the luchadoras promote the idea that their global- and future-oriented notion of Indigenousness is as “real” and “authentic” as a notion of indigeneity rooted in the past.

Based on extensive fieldwork, this intimate ethnography explores how orthodox Jewish Israelis devoted to settling the occupied West Bank adopt Buddhist-derived meditation to encounter God within and promote redemption. Settling the Mind, Settling the Land reveals how self-reflection can reinforce rather than challenge nationalist commitments.

This pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee reveals how perpetual reporting, driven by hope and belief in rights, paradoxically reinforces state power. A compelling study for scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, international law, and the anthropology of international organizations.

Music and Noise examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in present-day Northern Ireland. Refraining from common categorizations of parading as straightforwardly political or apolitically “cultural,” anthropologist Sean French’s ethnographic study instead asks: political in what way?

Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.