Volume 120, Number 3 (September 2018) From the Editor Decolonizing Disciplines Deborah A. Thomas, Editor-in-Chief Research Articles Hegemonic Concepts of Culture: The Checkered History of Dark Anthropology Lars Rodseth On the Matter of Resources and Techno-Politics: The Case of Water and Iron in the South Indian Iron Age Peter Gavin Johansen and Andrew M. Bauer When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the East African Coast Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Jonathan R. Walz (supplementary material) Building Bigness: Reputation, Prominence, and Social Capital in Rural South India Eleanor A. Power and Elspeth Ready Object Afterlives and the Burden of History: Between “Trash” and “Heritage” in the Steps of Migrants Gabriella Soto The Descendant Bargain: Latina Youth Remaking Kinship and Generation through Educational Sibcare in Nashville, Tennessee Andrea Flores “Putting Band-Aids on Things That Need Stitches”: Immigration and the Landscape of Care in Rural America Thurka Sangaramoorthy (supplementary material) Calibrating Play: Sociotemporality in South Korean Digital Gaming Culture Stephen C. Rea (supplementary material) “Toppling” Saddam Hussein in London: Media, Meaning, and the Construction of an Iraqi Diasporic Community Zainab Saleh (supplementary material) Religious Television and Contesting Piety in Karachi, Pakistan Taha Kazi Vital Topics Forum Archaeology as Bearing Witness Mark W. Hauser, Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Koji Lau-Ozawa, Barbara Voss, Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, Randall H. McGuire, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Christopher Hernandez, and Sonya Atalay World Anthropologies Special Section on Medical Anthropology Foreword Particularities in Common: A Collection of Essays about the Training, Theory, and Practice of Medical Anthropologies from Several Contexts around the World Emily Metzner and Narelle Warren Essays Enabling Social Change with Immigrant and Refugee Caregivers: Beyond Dualistic Difference to Intersectionality Rosi Aryal South African Medical Anthropology in the Wake of HIV Christopher J. Colvin From Displaced Care to Social Care: Narrative Interventions of Canadian Muslims Parin Dossa Health Anthropology in Australia Debbi Long and Hans Baer Southward Focused: Medical Anthropology in South Africa Lenore Manderson and Susan Levine “A Combination of Imagination and Observation”: Medical Anthropology in Vietnam since the 1990s Huong Nguyen and Tine Gammeltoft The (Mis)Fortunes and Prospects of Medical Anthropology in Nigeria Chidi Ugwu Multimodal Anthropologies Essays What Does “Open Data” Mean for Ethnographic Research? Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo A Multimodal Approach to the Anthropocene Jason M. Kelly and Fiona P. McDonald Review Essay The Perniciousness of Prisons: Documenting the Problems of Mass Incarceration Elyshia Aseltine Film Review (reviewer in parentheses) Osband (dir.): The Radical Jew (Shewbridge) Public Anthropologies Essay Unrequited Engagement: Misadventures in Advocating for Medicaid Expansion Emily K. Brunson, Jessica M. Mulligan, Elise Andaya, Milena A. Melo, and Susan Sered Book Reviews Single Reviews (reviewer in parentheses) Bach: What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Lass) Barnard: Language in Prehistory (Bengtson) Charlier: Zombies: An Anthropological Investigation of the Living Dead (Evans) Chenoweth: Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery: An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740–1780 (Gilmore) Cochrane: Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal (Hill) Englehardt and Rieger: These “Thin Partitions”: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology (Wells) Ford and Nigh: The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (Brewer) Goodwin: Co-Operative Action (Enfield) Guyer: Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy (Hultin) Hempenstall: Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology (Baker) Hutchings: Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown (Ford) Lancy: Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers (Klein) Lange: Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring (Counihan) Millar: Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump (Campbell) Redfern: Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Violence in Past Lives (Baustian) Sasaki: The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire (May) Scherer: Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul (Novotny) Obituary Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison (1927–2017) Brooke Thomas and Anthony Boyce ON THE COVER: Items curated for public presentations by the Tohono O’odham Solid Waste Department include: (A) a Mexican Consulate brochure discussing the dangers of border crossing; (B) a pink notebook; (C) a cold compress; (D) a notebook filled with recipes; (E) a booklet in Spanish explaining the rights of undocumented migrants in the United States; (F) a notarized document rendered illegible through fading; (G) a shaving razor; and (H) a bundle of various bus and plane tickets. 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