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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:39:31, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417518000269 https://www.cambridge.org/core ISSN 0010-4175 V ol. 60 N o. 4 p p . 753 –1210 O ctob er 2018 Volume 60 Number 4 October 2018 COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY Editorial Foreword 753–757 Gods in Things WEBB KEANE Divine Text, National Language, and Their Publics: Arguing an Indonesian Qur’an 758–785 STEPHAN PALMIÉ When Is a Thing? Transduction and Immediacy in Afro-Cuban Ritual; or, ANT in Matanzas, Cuba, Summer of 1948 786–809 Armored Bodies ANDREW BICKFORD From Idiophylaxis to Inner Armor: Imagining the Self-Armoring Soldier in the United States Military from the 1960s to Today 810–838 NIKO BESNIER, DANIEL GUINNESS, MARK HANN, AND UROŠ KOVAČ Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Order: Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, and Senegalese Wrestlers 839–872 Architectural Politics LEO COLEMAN Building Scotland, Building Solidarity: A Scottish Architect’s Knowledge of Nation 873–906 MICHAŁ MURAWSKI Actually-Existing Success: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Specificity of (Still-)Socialist Urbanism 907–937 Religious Others and the French Republic EMILY LAXER “We are all republicans”: Political Articulation and the Production of Nationhood in France’s Face Veil Debate 938–967 KIMBERLY A. ARKIN Historicity, Peoplehood, and Politics: Holocaust Talk in Twenty-First-Century France 968–997 Diasporic Belonging JOHN EICHER Rustic Reich: The Local Meanings of (Trans)National Socialism among Paraguay’s Mennonite Colonies 998–1028 FÉLIX KRAWATZEK AND GWENDOLYN SASSE Integration and Identities: The Effects of Time, Migrant Networks, and Political Crises on Germans in the United States 1029–1065 Edges of Sovereignty LOUISA LOMBARD Denouncing Sovereignty: Claims to Liberty in Northeastern Central African Republic 1066–1095 SHEETAL CHHABRIA The Aboriginal Alibi: Governing Dispossession in Colonial Bombay 1096–1126 What Empires Can and Can’t Do RICHARD LACHMANN What Empires Can and Can’t Do 1127–1142 JONATHAN BRACK Theologies of Auspicious Kingship: The Islamization of Chinggisid Sacral Kingship in the Islamic World 1143–1171 JEAN-PHILIPPE DEDIEU AND AÏSSATOU MBODJ-POUYE The Fabric of Transnational Political Activism: “Révolution Afrique” and West African Radical Militants in France in the 1970s 1172–1208 CSSH Note 1209–1210 C O M P A R A T IV E S T U D IE S IN S O C IE T Y A N D H IS T O R Y Cambridge Core For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: cambridge.org/CSSHjournal V O L U M E 6 0 N U M B E R 4 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 8 00104175_60-4_00104175_60-4 08/09/18 11:44 AM Page 1 terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417518000269 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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