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Articles in the Issue
Concealment, Deceit, and the Human
COURTNEY HANDMAN Language at the Limits of the Human: Deceit, Invention, and the Specter
of the Unshared Symbol
DIVYA CHERIAN The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern
South Asia
Origami and the Sides of States
ROBERT P. WELLER and KEPING WU Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of
the Chronotope
SARATH PILLAI German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and FederalistImaginaries in Interwar India
RICHARD COLE Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger
Futhark, 500–800
Rethinking Work in Late Twentieth-Century Socialism
TASHA RIJKE-EPSTEIN Making Malagasy Zebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in
Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978
ARTEMY KALINOVSKY Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of
Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective
Ideologies of Imperial Revenue
HARRIET ZURNDORFER Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime
Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565
MAXIMILIEN ZAHND Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and
Settler Colonialism
