Book Reviewed in this article: The political lives of dead bodies. By Katherine Verdery. Social and cultural anthropology. The key concepts. By Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing. Branchements. Anthropologie de l'universalité des cultures. By Jean‐Loup Amselle. Moral disagreements. Classic and contemporary readings. Edited by Christopher Gowans. A world of fine difference. The social architecture of a modern Irish village. By Adrian Pearce. Therapy across cultures. By Inge‐Britt Krause. Emotions and the social bond.

Social Anthropology

Anthropologie sociale

Volume 9 Issue 3

Social aspects of abstraction

Mask and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents*

Fraternity and endogamy. The House of Rothschild1

Ecology, alterity and resistance in Sardinia*

Ethnographic encounters. Positionings within and outside the insider frame*

Secularism. Personal values and professional evaluations

Secularism as an impediment to anthropological research

Three points on secularism and anthropology

Secularism and anthropological practice

Studying secularism, practising secularism. Anthropological imperatives

Anthropology. The paradox of the secular

Are politicians human? Problems and challenges of institutional anthropology*

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