INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 18 (2025) NO. 2

Contents

• Contents Page

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• Editor's Introduction

  141

  Paul O'Connor

• ARTICLES

• Reasons of the Heart: Repositioning Love in Sociology

  145

  Bjørn Thomassen & Andreas Bandak

• Populism in Latin America: A reading through the Theory of Reciprocity

  163

  Eric Sabourin

• Theorizing Peace Processes as a Political Field: The UN Peace Process for Syria

  181

  Esther Meininghaus

• SPECIAL SECTION ON FOOLS AND FOOLERY

• The Power of Folly and Fools

  205

  Arpad Szakolczai

• The Tatmadaw’s Cosmic Gamble: Sacred Heritage, Supernaturalism, and Fast Merit in Burmese Military Governance

  213

  Alicia Stevens

• Monastic Experience and the Gates of Reason

  233

  Marius Ion Bența

• Pietro Pacciani or the ‘Fool’ of the Florentine Hills

  247

  Janos Mark Szakolczai

• Fools and Foolery or the Contemporary Secular Magic

  265

  Agnes Horvath

• REVIEW ESSAYS

• Civilisational analysis as an exercise in rhetoric: Or, how to tickle the global ‘elites’. Review of William Dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

  269

  Arpad Szakolczai

• REVIEWS

• Review of Ruchi Chaturvedi, Violence of Democracy: Interparty conflict in South India

  281

  Asanda-Jonas Benya

• Review of Tilo Schabert (ed.), The Philosopher of Reality: Readings of Eric Voegelin

  285

  Paul O’Connor

• CONFERENCE REPORTS

• Conference Report: ‘Europe Between Past and Future'

  289

  Ingeborg Gruenwald

• NOTES ON AUTHORS

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