Book Reviewed in this article: Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early (Eds.). 2002. Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East (second edition). Alfred W Crosby. 2002. Throwing fire. Projectile technology through history. Charlotte Aull Davies and Stephanie Jones (Eds.). 2003. Welsh communities. New ethnographic perspectives. Stavre Th. Frasheri (translated by Peter R. Prifti). 2002. Through Mirdita in winter. Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox (Eds.). 2002. Anthropology, by comparison. Alexander Laban Hinton (Eds.). 2002. Annihilating difference. The anthropology of genocide. Valentina Napolitano. 2002. Migration, Mujercitas and medicine men. Living in urban Mexico. Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock (Eds.). 2002. New horizons in medical anthropology. Essays in honour of Charles Leslie. Jone Salomonsen. 2002. Enchanted feminism. The reclaiming witches of San Francisco. Monique Selim. 2003. Pouvoirs et marché au Vietnam. Ann Laura Stoler. 2002. Carnal knowledge and imperial power. Race and the intimate in colonial rule. Soroya Tremayne (Eds.). 2001. Managing reproductive life. Cross‐cultural themes in fertility and sexuality.

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Volume 12 Issue 1

Architecture of immanent power. Truth and nothingness in a Japanese bureaucratic machine*

Constructing exclusion. The micro‐sociology of an immigration department

Skilled vision. An apprenticeship in breeding aesthetics1

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Owing and being in debt. A contribution from the northern Andes of Ecuador

The return of magic

The predicament of writing the history of anthropology1

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