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Hann, Chris. 2019. "Revolution in Premodern Eurasia": Saïd Amir Arjomand, Revolution. Structure and Meaning in World History (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2019). European Journal of Sociology 60(3): 415–420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975619000237.

Naser, Waseem. 2019. Sumit Mandal, Becoming Arab: Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 260 pp. Asiatic 13(2): 222–224.

Celiksu, Sinan. 2019. Writing the world of policing: the difference ethnography makes. Didier Fassin, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 320 pp. American Ethnologist 46(4): 551–552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12864.

Eidson, John R. 2019. After ethnos. Rees, Tobias. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 192 pp. American Ethnologist 46(4): 523–524. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12841.

Calkins, Sandra. 2019. Casciarri, Barbara, Assal, Munzoul A.M. & Ireton, François. Multidimensional change in Sudan (1989‐2011): reshaping livelihoods, conflicts and identities. 374 pp. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25(3): 629–630. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13104.

Naser, Waseem. 2019. Moustafa, Tamir (2018), Constituting religion: Islam, liberal rights, and the Malaysian State, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 187 pages. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 38(2): 243–245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1868103419872856.

Bedert, Maarten. 2019. Danny Hoffman. Monrovia modern: urban and political imagination in Liberia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. xvi+205pp. African Studies Review 62(2): E31–E33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.111.

Baas, Michiel. 2019. Besnier, Niko, Brownell, Susan and Carter, Thomas F. 2017. The anthropology of sport: bodies, borders, biopolitics. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 336 pp. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 27(2): 390–392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12643.

Bognitz, Stefanie. 2019. Eramian, Laura. 2018. Peaceful selves: personhood, nationhood, and the post‐conflict moment in Rwanda. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 202 pp. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 27(2): 377–378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12656.

Endres, Kirsten W. 2019. The appropriation of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond. Edited by Michel Picard. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xi+285 pp. Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 34(1): 207–209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1355/sj34-1g.

Zoanni, Tyler. 2019. Disability and world religions: an introduction, D.Y. Schumm, M. Stoltzfus (Eds.). Texas: Baylor University Press, Waco (2016). Alter 13(1): 65–66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alter.2018.11.002.

Alymbaeva, Aida. 2019. Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström (Eds.), Ethnic and religious minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union: new dimensions of research (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2017). 283 pp. Ab Imperio 1: 367–373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2019.0020.

Calkins, Sandra. 2019. Review essay: infrastructures of citizenship in India. South Asia 42(4): 816–821. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1633496.

Calkins, Sandra and Tyler Zoanni. 2019. Population (What is it good for?). Anthropological Quarterly 92(3): 919–929. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2019.0041.

Lems, Annika. 2019. Placeless people: writing, rights, and refugees. By Lyndsey Stonebridge. Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pages. Journal of Refugee Studies 32(3): 525–527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez016.

Menetrier, Agathe. 2019. Isabelle Coutant: les migrants en bas de chez soi. Emulations. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.cr.078.

Schulz, Mascha. 2019. Islamic NGOs in Bangladesh: development, piety and neoliberal governmentality, by Mohammad Musfequs Salehin, London/New York, Routledge, 2016, 236 pp. South Asia 42(2): 430–431. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1584840.

Nasrallah, Faris. 2018. Summaries of UAE court decisions on arbitration 2012-2016 including DIFC court decisions edited by Hassan Arab, Lara Hammoud and Graham Lovett. ICC: ICE Services Publication, 2017. Pp. 180. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 19: 479–481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/01901001_018.

Nasrallah, Faris. 2018. Western Sahara: international law, justice and natural resources edited by Damien Kingsbury. London; New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 142. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 19: 482–484. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/01901001_019.

Hann, Chris. 2018. Rakowski, Tomasz. Hunters, gatherers and practitioners of powerlessness: an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland. xiv, 312 pp. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(4): 841–842. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12932.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Gender, sexuality, and society in Indonesia: a review essay of three recent publications. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 174(4): 481–490. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17404004.

Zoanni, Tyler. 2018. Myhre, Knut Christian (ed.) 2016. Cutting and connecting: 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 162 pp. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 26(4): 592–594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12561.

Terpe, Sylvia. 2018. Das höchste Gut. Soziopolis.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Hydraulic city: water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai. Nikhil Anand, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp. City and Society 30(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12186.

Lems, Annika and Paul Reade. 2018. Lettre à Mohamed by Christine Moderbacher. Sixpackfilm, 2013. 35 min. Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia 2(1): 121–123.

Berta, Anne Erita Venåsen. 2018. Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak and Elgin K. Eckert (eds) (2017), Representing Italy through food (London: Bloomsbury Academic), Pp. 269. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 27(2): 135–137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2018.270208.

Calkins, Sandra. 2018. Jennifer Tappan. 2017. The riddle of malnutrition: the long arc of biomedical and public health interventions in Uganda. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. XX, 218 pp. African Studies Quarterly 18(1): 132–134.

Rajkovic, Ivan. 2018. Henig, David & Nicolette Makovicky (eds). Economies of favour after socialism. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2016. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(3): 622–623. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12873.

Terpe, Sylvia. 2018. Erst kommt das Fressen. Soziopolis.

Pampus, Mareike. 2018. Cities in motion: urban life and cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940 by Su Lin Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. XII, 309. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81(2): 383–385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18000769.

Sipos, Michal. 2018. Chatterji, Roma (ed.). 2015. Wording the world: Veena Das and cenes of inheritance. New York: Fordham University Press. 481 pp. Social Anthropology 26(2): 278–280. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12499.

Hann, Chris. 2018. The invention of another tradition: Tim Rogan on a trio of radical historians in 20th century Britain. Soziopolis.

Schmidt, Mareike. 2018. Family Forms and Parenthood. Theory and Practice of Article 8 ECHR in Europe. Ed. by Andrea Büchler and Helen Keller. Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland: Intersentia 2016. XXIII, 544 S. Rabels Zeitschrift 82(2): 450–454. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1628/rabelsz-2018-0022.

Schorkowitz, Dittmar. 2018. Teichmann, Christian: Macht der Unordnung: Stalins Herrschaft in Zentralasien 1932-1950. (Studien zur Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.) Hamburg 2016. Historische Zeitschrift 306(2): 624–626.

Moderbacher, Christine. 2018. White faces: reframing memory. Allegra Lab.

Enright, Theresa, Lisa Björkman, Pauline McGuirk, Jamie Peck, Mark Purcell, Allen J. Scott, and Rossi Ugo. 2018. Cities in global capitalism. AAG Review of Books 6(1): 27–35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2018.1402288.

Björkman, Lisa. 2018. Gautam Bhan, In the public's interest: evictions, citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2016. 304 pages. Studies in Indian Politics 6(1): 152–154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2321023018762832.

Hann, Chris. 2018. Social imaginaries of the state and central authority in Polish highland villages, 1999-2005. By Anna Malewska-Szałygin. Trans. Aniela Korzeniowska and Stefan Sikora. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. x, 299 pp. Slavic Review 77(4): 1098–1100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2018.335.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil. 2018. Maruf, Harun, and Dan Joseph (2018), Inside Al-Shabaab. The secret history of Al-Qaeda’s most powerful ally, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Africa Spectrum 53(3): 134–136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/000203971805300307.

Kochore, Hassan Hussein. 2018. We do not have borders: Greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya by Keren Weitzberg. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 19(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2018.0026.

Kumpf, Desirée. 2018. A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world, by Erika Rappaport, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2017, 568 pp. South Asia 41(2): 498–499. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1440760 .

Kumpf, Desirée. 2018. Terrestrial lessons: the conquest of the world as globe, by Sumathi Ramaswamy, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 416 pp. South Asia 41(4): 925–927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1552637 .

LaTosky, Shauna. 2018. Dinslage, Sabine and Sophia Thubauville (eds.): Seeking out wise old men: six decades of Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2017. Pp. 319. Anthropos 113(2): 716–718. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2018-2-716.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Goldstein, Daniel M.: Owners of the sidewalk. Security and survival in the informal city. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 334 pp. Anthropos 113(1): 304–306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2018-1-304.

Relaño Pastor, Eugenia. 2018. Ministerio de Justicia, Informes Anuales sobre la situación de la libertad religiosa en España correspondientes a los años 2015 y 2016, elaborados por el Grupo de Trabajo, creado a tal efecto por el Real Decreto 932/2013, de 29 de noviembre, por el que se regula la Comisión Asesora de Libertad Religiosa, para la elaboración del Informe Anual sobre la situación de la libertad religiosa en España. Anuario de derecho Eclesiástico del Estado 34: 902–906.

Schlee, Günther. 2018. Killing your neighbors: friendship and violence in northern Kenya and beyond by Jon D. Holtzman. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. The Journal of Modern African Studies 56(1): 179–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X1700057X.

Schneider, Luisa. 2018. Giving life, giving death: psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy by Lucien Scubla. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Pp. XIV, 367. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online 10(1): 122–125.

Schulz, Mascha. 2018. Andrew Sanchez: Criminal Capital. Violence, Corruption and Class in India; New Delhi, London, New York: Routledge, 2016. 185 S. Asien 146: 139–141.

Thiemann, Andre. 2018. Managing ambiguity: how clientelism, citizenship, and power shape personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Čarna Brković. Oxford: Berghahn, 2017. Pp. 208. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 27(2): 130–133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2018.270208.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Petrus Liu: Queer marxism in two Chinas; Duke University Press. Intersections 41: 1–5.

Bellér-Hann, Ildikó. 2017. Xinjiang close-up: Uyghur nation: reform and revolution on the Russia-China frontier. By David Brophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 387 pp.; Oil and water: being Han in Xinjiang. By Tom Cliff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi, 252 pp.; Xinjiang and the modern Chinese state. By Justin M. Jacobs. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. Studies on ethnic groups in China. xvi, 297 pp.; Borderland capitalism: Turkestan produce, Qing Silver, and the birth of an Eastern market. By Kwangmin Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. viii, 299 pp.; Constructing, creating and contesting cityscapes: a socio-anthropological approach to urban transformation in Southern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. By Madlen Kobi. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. vii, 214 pp. Journal of Asian Studies 76(4): 1092–1100. DOI: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001024.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Bojan Bilić (2016) (ed.) LGBT activism and Europeanisation in the post-Yugoslav space: on the rainbow way to Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 256 p. Intersections 3(2): 88–92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v3i2.375.

Nasrallah, Faris. 2017. NATO in Afghanistan: fighting together, fighting alone by David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. 260. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 18: 705–708. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22112987_01801020.

Nasrallah, Faris. 2017. The politics of Islamic law: local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state by Iza R. Hussin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 351. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 18: 709–712. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22112987_01801021.

Björkman, Lisa. 2017. Entangled urbanism: slum, gated community, and shopping mall in Delhi and Gurgaon. By Sanjay Srivastava. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. xliv, 317 pp. Pacific Affairs 90(2): 383–386.

Terpe, Sylvia. 2017. Vom Mitgefühl zur Fairness. Soziopolis.

Bianchini, Katia. 2017. Nationality and statelessness in the international law of refugee status by Eric Fripp. Oxford; Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2016. Pp. 362. International standards on nationality law: texts, cases and materials by Gerard-René de Groot and Olivier Willem Vonk. Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2016. Pp. 756. Journal of Refugee Studies 30(1): 153–156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fex012.

Rayner, Jeremy. 2017. Everyday revolutions: horizontalism and autonomy in Argentina. Marina Sitrin. New York and London: Zed, 2012. 272 pp. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 22(1): 194–194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12277.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Bangalore and its IT industry: a changing landscape of work and life in urban India. Economic and Political Weekly 52(24): 31–37.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Brown boys and rice queens: spellbinding performances in the Asias; Eng-Beng Lim; New York & London, New York University Press, 2013. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 18(2): 185–187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1233846.

Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von. 2017. Incommensurable ideals: the enigma of music competitions; performing civility; international competitions in classical music by McCormick Lisa. Cambridge University Press, 2015. European Journal of Sociology 57(3): 541–545. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975616000333.

Biczyk, Małgorzata Maria. 2017. Petric, Boris. Where are all our sheep?: Kyrgyzstan, a global political arena. London, New York: Berghahn Books. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(4): 845–846. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12735.

Campbell, Brian. 2017. Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela H. 2017. Spain unmoored: migration, vonversion, and the politics of Islam. Indiana: Indiana University Press (New Anthropologies of Europe Series) (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Series). Journal of Mediterranean Studies 26(2): 267–269.

Carrier, James G. 2017. Anthropology and economy by Stephen Gudeman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Current Anthropology 58(4): 544–545. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/693008.

Chen, Wanjing. 2017. Africa's information revolution: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania. Journal of Economic Geography 17(1): 265–266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbw038.

Finke, Peter. 2017. Sinophobia: anxiety, violence, and the making of Mongolian identity by Franck Billé. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. 272 pp. American Anthropologist 119(2): 370–371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12851.

Foblets, Marie-Claire. 2017. Bauwens, Kathrin, Religiöse Paralleljustiz. Zulässigkeit und Grenzen informeller Streitschlichtung und Streitentscheidung unter Muslimen in Deutschland, Schriften zum Öffentlichen Recht, Bd. 1332, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, 272 S. Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 37(7): 277–279.

Ismailbekova, Aksana. 2017. Muslim women of the Fergana Valley: a 19th-century ethnography from Central Asia, by Vladimir Nalivkin, Maria Nalivkina, and Mariana Markova (translated by Mariana Markova and Marianne Kamp, and edited by Marianne Kamp), Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016, 242 pp. Central Asian Survey 36(4): 581–583. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2017.1332309.

Knörr, Jacqueline. 2017. Sites, bodies and stories: imagining Indonesian history, Susan Legêne, Bambang Purwanto, and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Eds). NUS Press, Singapore (2015). 245 pages. Journal of Historical Geography 55: 126–127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2016.06.005.

Mikuš, Marek. 2017. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Tomáš Profant a kol.: Mimo Sever a Jih. Rozumět globálním nerovnostem a rozmanitostem. Praha, Ústav mezinárodníh vztahů 2015, 328 p. Sociologický Časopis 53(5): 790–792.

Moderbacher, Christine. 2017. Robert de Wavrin: from the Manor to the Jungle, Film by Grace Winter, Luc Plantier, 2017, 85 min. Visual Ethnography 6(2): 291–293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12835/ve2017.2-0098.

Müller, Dominik. 2017. Taming the wild: aborigines and racial knowledge in colonial Malaya by Khor Manickam, S. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 18(1): 93–95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1162125.

Nguyen, Minh T. N. 2017. Luxury and rubble: civility and dispossession in the new Saigon by Erik Harms, University of California Press, 2016. Journal of Culture and Folk Studies (4): 77–79.

Reyna, Stephen P. 2017. Myhre, Knut Christian (ed.). Cutting and connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange. vi, 162 pp. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(1): 231–232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12590.

Schlee, Günther. 2017. The Shifta Conflict: conflict in the Horn of Africa: the Kenya-Somalia border problem 1941-2014. By Vincent Bakpetu Thompson. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2015. Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya: a social history of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968. By Hannah Whittaker. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Journal of African History 58(2): 349–352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853717000172.

Vetters, Larissa. 2017. Der andere Blick auf das Recht: ethnographische Annäherungen an die Implementierung, Mobilisierung und Manipulation von Migrationsrecht. Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 37(2): 86–90.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2017. Neoliberal moral economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda; London: Rowman & Littlefield 2016, 375 pp. Forum for Development Studies 44(3): 517–519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2017.1384170.

Wesołowski, Adrian. 2017. From empire to humanity: American revolution and the origins of humanitarianism. Przegląd Historyczny 108(3): 623–625.

Zoanni, Tyler. 2017. Shanti Parikh, Regulating romance: youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 336 pp. Anthropological Quarterly 90(2): 565–569. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2017.0036.

Lems, Annika. 2016. Making refuge: Somali Bantu refugees and Lewiston, Maine by Catherine Besteman. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 352. Society and Space.

Lems, Annika. 2016. Existence in the details: theory and methodology in existential anthropology by Albert Piette. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2015. Pp. 119. Ethos 44(3): E10–E11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12129.

Ismailbekova, Aksana. 2016. Finke, Peter. 2014. Variations on Uzbek identity: strategic choices, cognitive schemas and political constraints in identification processes. Integration and Conflict Studies, vol. 7. New York: Berghahn. 288 pp. Social Anthropology 24(3): 388–389. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12319.

Zoanni, Tyler. 2016. Whyte, Susan Reynolds (ed.) 2014. Second chances: surviving AIDS in Uganda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 328 pp. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 24(3): 412–413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12296.

Terpe, Sylvia. 2016. Die Macht der Stimmungen. Soziopolis.

Cash, Jennifer R. 2016. Gwénola Sebaux, (post)colonisation - (post)migration: these Germans between Germany and Romania. RECEO 47(1-2): 333–335.

Lems, Annika. 2016. What is existential anthropology? edited by Michael D. Jackson and Albert Piette. New York: Berghahn, 2015. Pp. 254. Anthropology and Humanism 41(1): 121–122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12111.

O'Kane, David. 2016. Nation as network: diaspora, cyberspace and citizenship by Victoria Bernal; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 208 pp. American Anthropologist 118(1): 180–181. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12455.

Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia. 2016. Vesna A. Wallace (ed.) Buddhism in Mongolian history, culture, and society. New York: Oxford University Press. 2015. Inner Asia 18(2): 336–338.

Hann, Chris. 2016. Can the gift be sponsored? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(4): 984–989. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12505.

Hanschel, Dirk. 2016. David Haijan, Constitutionalising secession, Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.com), 2014. xvii + 448pp. The Edinburgh Law Review 20(3): 411–413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2016.0379.

Hanschel, Dirk. 2016. Debates in German public law. Eds Herman Pinder and Christian Waldorf, Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2014. xiii+356 pp. The Edinburgh Law Review 20(2): 239–240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2016.0348.

Knörr, Jacqueline. 2016. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, culture, creolization, and colonialism in the nineteenth century by Gibril R. Cole. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Comparativ 26(2): 108.

Kokal, Kalindi. 2016. Pashington Obeng, Rural women’s power in South Asia: understanding Shakti. South Asia Research 36(2): 286–288.

Mikuš, Marek. 2016. McFall, Liz. 2015. Devising consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending. London: Routledge. 203 pp. Hb.: US$119.48. ISBN: 978-0-415-69439-1. Social Anthropology 24(4): 537–538. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12339.

O'Kane, David. 2016. Shepler, Susan. Childhood deployed: remaking child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(4): 1003–1004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12519.

Rao, Ursula. 2016. Corinna R. Unger: Entwicklungspfade in Indien. Eine internationale Geschichte 1947-1980, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015, 319 S. Comparativ 26(3): 134–136.

Reyna, Stephen P. 2016. Oil wealth and insurgency in Nigeria by Omolade Adunbi. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 6(2): 125–127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.6.2.08.

Reyna, Stephen P. 2016. The depths of Russia: oil, power, and culture after socialism, by Douglas Rogers. Anthropological Forum: 1–3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2016.1212539.

Rigoni, Clara. 2016. Restorative justice and mediation in penal matters: a stock-taking of legal issues, implementation strategies and outcomes in 36 European countries by Frieder Dünkel, Joanna Grzywa-Holten and Philip Horsfield (eds.). Mönchengladbach: Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2015. Pp. 1100. Restorative Justice 4(2): 276–279. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20504721.2016.1197539.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2016. Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya. A social history of the Shifta conflict, c. 1963-1968, written by Hannah Whittaker. Islamic Africa 7(1): 121–123. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00701010.