Volume 121, Number 1 (February 2019) From the Editor Death and Renewal Deborah A. Thomas, Editor-in-Chief Comment Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives in American Anthropologist: An Editorial Provocation Adam P. Van Arsdale and Mary K. Shenk Research Articles The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities Nicholas C. Kawa, Jose A. Clavijo Michelangeli, Jessica L. Clark, Daniel Ginsberg, and Christopher McCarty The Emergence of Shell Valuable Exchange in the New Guinea Highlands Dylan Gaffney, Glenn R. Summerhayes, Katherine Szabo, and Brent Koppel Planting and Performing: Anxiety, Aspiration, and “Scripts” in Telangana Cotton Farming Andrew Flachs The Unsociability of Commercial Seafaring: Language Practice and Ideology in Maritime Technocracy Sonia N. Das Strangership and Social Media: Moral Imaginaries of Gendered Strangers in Rural China Tom McDonald Protecting the Passport: Defending US Borders Built in the United Arab Emirates Shaundel Sanchez Performing Alterity of Desire: Bodiliness and Sexuality in Spirit Mediumship in Northeast Thailand Visisya Pinthongvijayakul Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences are Reproduced in Medical Training in Mexico Vania Smith-Oka and Megan K. Marshalla Intersections of Insecurity, Nurturing, and Resilience: A Case Study of Turkana Women of Kenya Ivy L. Pike Yellow Woman: Suspicion and Cooperation on Liberia’s Gold Mines Danny Hoffman Interview Cultures, Open and in Process: An Interview with Ulf Hannerz Kevin A. Yelvington and Rodrigo Martins Ramassote Vital Topics Forum What Happened to Social Facts? Introduction Karen Ho and Jillian R. Cavanaugh “This Is Not Normal”: Are Social Facts Finished? Carol J. Greenhouse The Making of Racial Caste in Post-Truth America Michael Partis Liberal Bias: The New “Reverse Racism” in the Trump Era Carolyn Rouse Patriarchy for Profit: Reflections on Some Social Facts Sherry B. Ortner “Build the Wall!”: Post-Truth on the US-Mexico Border Hilary Parsons Dick How Trump’s Populism Shapes the Uptake of New Social Facts Adam Hodges Austerity Lives in Southern Europe: Experience, Knowledge, Evidence, and Social Facts\ Susana Narotzky Ludic Authoritarianism Alexander S. Dent Science, Truth, and the American Way Karen-Sue Taussig What Is Secrecy and How Can We Understand Its Relation to Social Facts? Erin Debenport World Anthropologies Foreword Translation, Its Inequalities, and Its Difficulties Virginia R. Dominguez Essay Publishing Translations Michael Chibnik Commentary World Order of Languages, Public Anthropology, Translations Ulf Hannerz The Ups and Downs of Translation Jorge Hernández Díaz Closures beyond Translations Ayse Caglar Crafting Linguistic Traditions, Engaging Writing Teams Michel Bouchard Interviews Interview of Peter-Jazzy Ezeh by Virginia Dominguez and Emily Metzner on the Subject of Translation Peter-Jazzy Ezeh, Virginia R. Dominguez, and Emily Metzner Interview of Sachiko Kubota by Virginia Dominguez on the Subject of Translation Sachiko Kubota and Virginia Dominguez Multimodal Anthropologies Special Series on Multimodal Inventions Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón Articles Photography, Listening, Pedagogy, and Anthropological (Re-)Inventions Arjun Shankar The Sensible Life of Return: Collaborative Experiments in Art and Anthropology in Palestine/Israel Kiven Strohm Film Reviews (reviewer in parentheses) Kissel (dir.): Cotton Road: A Supply Chain Journey (Chio) Sudbury (dir.): Village Tales (Mathew) Book Reviews Special Book Review Section on The Seductions of Quantification by Sally Engle Merry Success through Failure: Translation, Temporal Tricks, and Numeric Concept-Work Andrea Ballestero Magical Thinking Denise Brennan A Measure of the Measure of Measuring Nayanika Mathur The Gender of the Number Diane M. Nelson Counting Uncountables Katherine Verdery Response Anthropology and the Perils of Quantification Sally Engle Merry Single Reviews (reviewer in parentheses) Biruk: Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Tousignant) Brooks: The Importance of British Material Culture to the Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century (Nevell) Dick: Words of Passage: National Longing and Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants (Orellana) Falls: White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (Wilson) García-Des Lauriers and Love: Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica (Blomster) Hargrave et al.: Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest (Hatch) Hassig: Polygamy and the Rise and Demise of the Aztec Empire (Evans) Hutchinson: Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America (Horning) Ives: Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea (Hull) Mahdavi: Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives (Fernandez) Schmidt and Pikirayi: Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice (Smith) Smith: To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria (Gaibazzi) ON THE COVER: Ritual exchange, Tsembaga. Shells, shell valuables, steel axes, woven armbands. (Courtesy of Roy Rappaport Papers, Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego)
