The August 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology features seven original articles spanning animal-welfare activism in India (Naisargi Dave), global health initiatives as a plan for humanity (Tobias Rees), the concept of the signature in particle physics (Arpita Roy), Santería body logics in Cuba (Aisha Beliso De-Jesús), Franco-Malagasy marriages and French immigration politics (Jennifer Cole), Lemba reckonings of their genetic Jewishness (Noah Tamarkin), and the politics of Cherokee Freedman civil rights and Cherokee sovereignty (Circe Sturm).