Volume 65, #2//April 2023

Editorial Foreword

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Articles in the Issue

Religious Authority and Authorizing Religion


AUDREY TRUSCHKE
Hindu: A History

ALI-REZA BHOJANI and MORGAN CLARKE
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora

Marked Bodies and (Un)making Kin


SARAH BALAKRISHNAN
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957

FARZIN VEJDANI
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran

ROBERTA BIVINS
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders

Time-Space of Postcolonial Africa


KEVIN P. DONOVAN
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa

NANA OSEI-OPARE
Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits

Fabulations of Emptiness and Fullness


CAROLINE FORD
The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France

AYŞE PARLA
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation

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Lecturer of Anthropology University of Michigan Associate Managing Editor Comparative Studies in Society and History