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The article discusses papers published within the issue, including one by Chika Watanabe on the moral discourse surrounding loans to aid workers given by a Japanese environmental and development organization in Myanmar and another by Hadas Weiss on the attempt of middle-class workers in Israel to cope with pension practices.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various papers by linguistic anthropologists who work in indigenous- and endangered-language contexts published within the issue.

Critique, or "crit", comes from the world of fine arts and design and constitutes the dominant review model in many studio practice programs. The "best" type of review is usually considered to be double-anonymous review, where reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and authors, similarly, do not know who has reviewed their work. Unlike double-anonymous review, crit takes the form of a conversation and may involve lively back-and-forth, and, of course, in crit nobody is anonymous. [Extracted from the article]