Issue 4

Table of contents

1. James Laidlaw:

   Ontologically challenged

   • Not quite shamans: spirit worlds and political lives in Northern Mongolia By Morten Axel Pedersen

2. Andrew Beatty:

   Return to the field

3. Henrike Donner:

   Love and marriage, globally

   • Invitations to love: literacy, love letters, and social change in Nepal By Laura M Ahearn
   • Modern loves: the anthropology of romantic courtship and companionate marriage Edited by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow

4. Jonathan Spencer:

   Who is the enemy?

   • Talking to the enemy: violent extremism, sacred values and what it means to be human By Scott Atran

5. Brian Juan O'Neill:

   Miraculous Eurasia

   • The Eurasian miracle By Jack Goody

6. Jason Hickel:

   Liberalism and the politics of Occupy Wall Street

Feature article

1. Michael Lambek:

   Facing religion, from anthropology