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.

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.

By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.

A Break in the Future considers the ways in which belief in political change is maintained after movements fail. Examining political activism in Lebanon in the decade between the Arab and Lebanese uprisings, Fuad Musallam explores the ebb and flow of political engagement in dialogue to better understand how political possibility endures.

Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families in Paris and Dakar negotiate “economic moralities,” and how French-born children of middle-class Senegalese, acutely aware of prejudice against Muslims in Europe, forge connections abroad that reproduce transnational kinship.

Shankar Ramaswami shows how migrant workers in contemporary India confront myriad hardships. In a metal factory in Delhi, they resist perceived oppression and injustice. In the city and village, they weave close ties to one another. In the cosmological domain, they resist soul-distorting processes in the Kalyug, or the present, decivilizing times.

Modern Dharma explores family transformations among the Nepali city of Bhaktapur’s emerging middle class. Personal narratives of conflict and adjustment in domestic spaces and among kin shed new light on changing social roles and relationships, which are negotiated in the pursuit of “well-being” in a context of accelerated socioeconomic change.

Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of small-scale gold miners in the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, revealing how mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect.

Pushing back against the tendency to think of dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, anthropologist Michael Jackson shows us the ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions, as well as how they are reimagined and circumvented in a variety of contemporary settings.