Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH) is an international forum for new research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and in the contemporary world. CSSH sets up a working alliance among specialists in all branches of the social sciences and humanities as a way of bringing together multidisciplinary research, cultural studies, and theory, especially in anthropology, history, political science, and sociology. Review articles and discussion bring readers in touch with current findings and issues.
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Editorial Foreword
Editorial Foreword Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 753 – 757 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000270 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Gods in Things
Divine Text, National Language, and Their Publics: Arguing an Indonesian Qur'an Webb Keane Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 758 – 785 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000282 Published Online on 1 October 2018
When Is a Thing? Transduction and Immediacy in Afro-Cuban Ritual; or, ANT in Matanzas, Cuba, Summer of 1948 Stephan Palmié Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 786 – 809 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000294 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Armored Bodies
From Idiophylaxis to Inner Armor: Imagining the Self-Armoring Soldier in the United States Military from the 1960s to Today Andrew Bickford Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 810 – 838 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000300 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Order: Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, and Senegalese Wrestlers Niko Besnier, Daniel Guinness, Mark Hann, Uroš Kovač Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 839 – 872 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000312 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Architectural Politics
Building Scotland, Building Solidarity: A Scottish Architect's Knowledge of Nation Leo Coleman Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 873 – 906 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000324 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Actually-Existing Success: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Specificity of (Still-)Socialist Urbanism Michał Murawski Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 907 – 937 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000336 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Religious Others and the French Republic
“We are all republicans”: Political Articulation and the Production of Nationhood in France's Face Veil Debate Emily Laxer Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 938 – 967 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000348 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Historicity, Peoplehood, and Politics: Holocaust Talk in Twenty-First-Century France Kimberly A. Arkin Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 968 – 997 doi: 10.1017/S001041751800035X Published Online on 1 October 2018
Diasporic Belonging
Rustic Reich: The Local Meanings of (Trans)National Socialism among Paraguay's Mennonite Colonies John Eicher Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 998 – 1028 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000361 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Integration and Identities: The Effects of Time, Migrant Networks, and Political Crises on Germans in the United States Félix Krawatzek, Gwendolyn Sasse Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1029 – 1065 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000373 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Edges of Sovereignty
Denouncing Sovereignty: Claims to Liberty in Northeastern Central African Republic Louisa Lombard Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1066 – 1095 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000385 Published Online on 1 October 2018
The Aboriginal Alibi: Governing Dispossession in Colonial Bombay Sheetal Chhabria Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1096 – 1126 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000397 Published Online on 1 October 2018
What Empires Can and Can't Do
What Empires Can and Can't Do Richard Lachmann Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1127 – 1142 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000403 Published Online on 1 October 2018
Theologies of Auspicious Kingship: The Islamization of Chinggisid Sacral Kingship in the Islamic World Jonathan Brack Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1143 – 1171 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000415 Published Online on 1 October 2018
The Fabric of Transnational Political Activism: “Révolution Afrique” and West African Radical Militants in France in the 1970s Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1172 – 1208 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000427 Published Online on 1 October 2018
CSSH Note
Gregory Mann. 2015. From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Judith Scheele Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 60 / Issue 4, October 2018, pp 1209 – 1210 doi: 10.1017/S0010417518000439 Published Online on 1 October 2018