Arbuckle, Benjamin S., and Sue Ann McCarty, eds. 2014. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. As soon as I learned about the publication of Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World, I was eager to acquire a copy because of my own interests in the historical uses of […]
Gudeman, Stephen F., and C. M. Hann, eds. 2015. Oikos and Market: Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism. New York: Oxford : Berghahn. How are anthropologists to understand households when markets and states are so deeply entwined within the human economy? Oikos and Market addresses this question with case studies drawn from long-term ethnography from six postsocialist […]
Jacka, Jerry K. 2015. Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area. Durham: Duke University Press. The Porgera valley in Papua New Guinea is well-known as the home of one of the largest gold mines in the world, and this book documents the lives of people in the […]
Mols, Luitgard E. M., ed. 2017. Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage. Leiden: National Museum of Ethnology. Mols and Buitelaar’s edited volume places the Hajj within a wider historical scope that informs us of the ways that the political and cultural spheres of the Middle East have been restructured as a result of interactions with the […]
