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A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, while focusing on what makes humans so different from each other although we are also universally so much alike.

Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.

Making Migrants is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities.

People as Protection explores civilian self-protection in Nigeria’s struggle to overcome Boko Haram, focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force, a grassroots response to the insurgency. Merging emotional insight and cultural analysis, it uncovers how hope, patriotism, and community drove ordinary citizens to confront violence and reclaim dignity.

Sacred Economies examines how church and mosque infrastructure in Uganda enables local efforts to address poverty. It focuses especially on the role of Christian and Muslim leaders who create interfaith networks of community care and the ways in which faith and economic activity intertwine to sustain these networks.

Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.

Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.

Cuba’s small business owners are on the front lines of a changing economy. The Struggle for the Market takes readers inside Havana’s vibrant marketplaces, revealing small-scale entrepreneurs’ challenges and triumphs as they navigate the complexities of legal reforms and their relationship with the state that both empowers and constrains them.