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From Village Commons to Public Goods January 2026 From Village Commons to Public Goods Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China Anne-Christine Trémon Visions of Marriage January 2026 Visions of Marriage Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020 Hsiao-Chiao Chiu The Power of the Story January 2026 The Power of the Story Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean Edited by Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, and John Ribó Good Enough Mothers January 2026 Good Enough Mothers Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico JM López A New African Elite January 2026 A New African Elite Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation Deborah Pellow Comical Modernity January 2026 Comical Modernity Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna Heidi Hakkarainen Germany and the Middle East January 2026 Germany and the Middle East From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel Rolf Steininger Pure Food February 2026 Pure Food Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives Edited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism February 2026 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad Edited by Ståle Knudsen Citizens into Dishonored Felons February 2026 Citizens into Dishonored Felons Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 Timon de Groot Globalizing Automobilism February 2026 Globalizing Automobilism Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 Gijs Mom Legal Entanglements February 2026 Legal Entanglements Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 Sebastian Gehrig Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe February 2026 Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe Representations, Transfers and Exchanges Edited by František Šístek Ibn Khaldun March 2026 Ibn Khaldun Lawrence Rosen Kharkov/Kharkiv March 2026 Kharkov/Kharkiv A Borderland Capital Volodymyr Kravchenko The Force of Comparison March 2026 The Force of Comparison A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World Willibald Steinmetz Different from the Others March 2026 Different from the Others German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940 Cyd Sturgess

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Anthropological Journal of European CulturesAnthropological Journal of European Cultures(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)AiAAnthropology in ActionJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and PracticeAnthropology of the Middle EastAnthropology of the Middle EastAspasiaAspasiaThe International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender HistoryBHSBoyhood StudiesAn Interdisciplinary JournalCJACambridge Journal of AnthropologyConflic and SocietyConflict and SocietyAdvances in ResearchContentionContentionThe Multidisciplinary Journal of Social ProtestCHOCContributions to the History of ConceptsCritical SurveyCritical SurveyDurheimian StudiesDurkheimian StudiesÉtudes DurkheimiennesEnvironment and SocietyEnvironment and SocietyAdvances in ResearchEthnologia EuropaeaEthnologia EuropaeaJournal of European EthnologyEuropean Comic ArtEuropean Comic ArtEuropean JudaismEuropean JudaismA Journal for the New EuropeFocaalFocaalJournal of Global and Historical AnthropologyFPCSFrench Politics, Culture & SocietyGPSGerman Politics and SocietyGHSGirlhood StudiesAn Interdisciplinary JournalHRRHHistorical Reflections/Réflexions HistoriquesIJSQInternational Journal of Social Quality(formerly The European Journal of Social Quality)ISRIsrael Studies ReviewAn Interdisciplinary JournalJEMMSJournal of Educational Memory, Media, and SocietyJLAJournal of Legal AnthropologyJBSMJournal of Bodies, Sexualities, and MasculinitiesLATISSLearning and Teaching (LATISS)The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social SciencesMigration and SocietyMigration and SocietyAdvances in ResearchMuseum WorldsMuseum WorldsAdvances in ResearchNature and CultureNature and CultureProjectionsProjectionsThe Journal for Movies and MindRegions and CohesionRegions and CohesionRegiones y Cohesión / Régions et CohésionReligion and SocietyReligion and SocietyAdvances in ResearchSartre Studies InternationalSartre Studies InternationalAn Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary CultureScreen BodiesScreen BodiesThe Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and TechnologySibiricaSibiricaInterdisciplinary Journal of Siberian StudiesSocial AnalysisSocial AnalysisThe International Journal of AnthropologySocial AnthropologySocial AnthropologyAnthropologie socialeTheoriaTheoriaA Journal of Social and Political TheoryTransfersTransfersInterdisciplinary Journal of Mobility StudiesTurbaTurbaThe Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation

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