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This review offers new perspectives on the anthropology of injuries and wounds. It maps how theories, methods, and ethnographic sensibilities converge on wounds, on the act of wounding, and on the wounded as instructive objects. The review assesses how anthropologists understand social forces to cause wounds and how they accord wounds the power to generate meaning about sociality. Organized across two themes, "breach" and "repair," the review tests concepts of embodiment across clinical boundaries, manifestations of harm, and formations of justice. It examines how anthropological thought connects to wound culture and assesses links between embodiment and politics that develop in the domains of critical theory and medical anthropology. Ultimately, it aims to shed light on the connections between body politics and ethnography and to ask what wounds might generate as an anthropological concern.

Introduction (Kjeldgaard, Bajde, Belk) Part I: Objects and their doings Chapter 1 -- Love and Locks: consumers making pilgrimages and performing love rituals (Borraz) Chapter 2 -- The Life and Death of Anthony Barbie: A Consumer Culture Tale of Lovers, Butlers and Crashers (Walther) Chapter 3 -- "When your dog matches your decor": Object agency of living and non-living entities in home assemblage (Syrjälä and Norrgrann) Chapter 4 -- "I'm only a Guardian of these Objects": Vintage traders, Curatorial consumption and the meaning(s) of objects (Abdelrahman et al.) Part II: Glocalization Chapter 5 -- Story of Cool: Journey from the West to Emerging Arab countries (Zounaoui and Smaoui) Chapter 6 -- Ethnic Identification: Capital and Distinction among Second-Generation British Indians (Pradhan, Cocker and Hogg) Chapter 7 -- Cognitive polyphasia, cultural legitimacy and behavior change: The case of the illicit alcohol market in Kenya (Mwangi, Cocker and Piacentini) Part III: Constituting Markets Chapter 8 -- Magic Towns: Creating the Consumer Fetish In Market Research Test Sites (Schwarzkopf) Chapter 9 -- Humanizing Market Relationships: The DIY Extended Family (Ottlewski et al.) Chapter 10 -- Patriotism as Creative (Counter- )Conduct of Russian Fashion Designers (Gurova) Chapter 11 -- Culinary communication practices: the role of retail spaces in producing field-specific cultural capital (Galalae, Emontspool and Omidvar) Part IV: Quoth the Raven Chapter 12 -- Duck, it's a Raven!: Writing Stirring Stories with Andersen's Sinister Shadow (Brown).

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in "the middle of the future."To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—"The End of History" as posited by Francis Fukuyama and "The Clash of Civilizations" posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed "universality" of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the "veneer" of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building "human capacity" in their societies.