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Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, or transgressed, and by whom?\u00a0<i>Zainab\u2019s Traffic<\/i>\u00a0provides answers to these questions alongside the socially embedded\u2014and spatially generative\u2014encounters of ritual, mobility, desire, genealogy, and patronage along the route. Whether it is through the study of the spatial politics of saint veneration in Islam, analysis of cross-border gold trade and sanctions, or examination of pilgrims women\u2019s desire for Syrian lingerie accompanying their pleas with the saint in marital matters, the book develops the idea of visitation as a ritual of mobility across geography, history, and category. Iranian visitors\u2019 experiences on the road to Sayyida Zainab\u2014emerging out of a self-described \u201cpoverty of mobility\u201d\u2014demonstrate the utility of a more capacious anthropological understanding of ritual. 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