Adams, Vincanne, ed. 2016. Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Durham: Duke University Press. There has long been a tension between sociocultural anthropology and more quantitative fields such as demography and medicine (Christman and Maretzki, 1982; Schepher-Hughes 1990; Kertzer and Fricke 1997). While some of this history results from differences in methodological and theoretical orientations, […]
Fox, Georgia Lynne, and Michael S. Nassaney. 2015. The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples across the Americas cultivated and consumed tobacco. In some Indigenous communities, tobacco was ingested by chewing, in others tobacco was consumed by pipe and cigar smoking (p. 19-20). Native communities […]
Borneman, John. 2015. Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. John Borneman’s Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany is an ethnographic account of fieldwork among men who had been accused and convicted of child molestation. In much of the West, individuals who […]
Ingold, Tim. 2015. The Life of Lines. London ; New York: Routledge. Introduction This review aims to offer readers a concise yet (hopefully) robust review of Tim Ingold’s latest work, The Life of Lines. Readers familiar with Ingold’s work will remember his controversial (but arguably misunderstood) definition of anthropology as “philosophy with people in” (1992, p.696), […]
Tetreault, Chantal. 2015. Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cites. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA: WILEY Blackwell. In Transnational Teens, Tetreault’s most powerful claim is that in French politics and media “‘French’ and ‘Arab Muslim’ are constructed as mutually exclusive” and are in many ways seen as incompatible (p. 2). This is shown […]
Whiteford, Linda M., and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros. 2015. Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model for Global Public Health. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. Anthropologists who collaborate with communities and organizations to bring about positive social change and improve public health will be very interested in this concise, but detailed, case study of an inter
