Issue 21

Table of contents

1. Jonathan Spencer:

   The right anthropologist

   • The right spouse: preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu By Isabelle Clark-Decès

2. Anastasia Piliavsky:

   Egalitarian fantasy and politics in the real world

   • Democracy as death: the moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa By Jason Hickel
   • Zero hunger: political culture and antipoverty policy in Northeast Brazil By Aaron Ansell

3. Jakob Klein:

   Industrialization and local foodways in the People’s Republic of China

   • Bitter and sweet: food, meaning, and modernity in modern China By Ellen Oxfeld

4. Andrew Brandel:

   A poet in the field: the companionship of literature and anthropology

   • Phantom Africa By Michel Leiris

Feature article

1. Laura Bear:

   The vitality of labour and its ghosts