Issue 23

Table of contents

1. Peter van der Veer:

   Vanishing worlds

   • Songs for dead parents: corpse, text, and world in Southwest China By Erik Mueggler
   • Living without the dead: loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos By Piers Vitebsky

2. Adam Kuper:

   We need to talk about kinship

3. Resto Cruz:

   When carabaos move to the city

   • Owners of the map: motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok By Claudio Sopranzetti

4. Nicholas H. A. Evans:

   What Islam is

   • Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi By Anand Vivek Taneja

Feature article

1. Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza:

   Remembering and imagining a normal home