Volume 3
2017

Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal

Pardue, Derek. 2015. Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Cape Verde, Let’s Go addresses the postcolonial politics of citizenship in Portugal through the lens of Creole rap. It examines how Creole challenges what it means to be Portuguese and shapes notions of identity and belonging. The […]

Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

Hinton, Alexander Laban. 2016. Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. Durham: Duke University Press. Alexander Laban Hinton has written a highly engaging and experimental ethnography of international justice that narrates the criminal trial of Kaing Guek Eav (aka “Duch”), a central figure in the “killing fields’ of 1970s Cambodia. Man or […]

50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality

Schwartz, Pepper, and Martha Kempner. 2015. 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. Unfounded beliefs about bodies, genders, and sexualities are running rampant in Euroamerican societies. These beliefs are more than mere misgivings or misunderstandings, they have real effects on people’s lives and can support structures of marginalization and oppression. In 50 […]

If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography

Fassin, Didier, ed. 2017. If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography. Durham: Duke University Press. Every anthropologist at some point in their career, consciously or not, responds to the particularities of their work of ethnography and its contribution to the space within which the anthropologist is located. Accusations of ‘speaking from an ivory […]

Ancient Zapotec Religion: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective

Lind, Michael. 2015. Ancient Zapotec Religion: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. Every anthropologist at some point in their career, consciously or not, responds to the particularities of their work of ethnography and its contribution to the space within which the anthropologist is located. Accusations of ‘speaking from an ivory […]

Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization

Guano, Emanuela. 2017. Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization. 1st edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. There has been an extraordinary amount of public interest and scholarly writing on the dramatic transformation of cities around the world through the powerful forces of global capital and state intervention. Anthropologists have long […]

Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

Gaibazzi, Paolo. 2015. Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa. New York: Berghahn Books. In the wake of unprecedented global migrations, and heightened concern in the countries which receive increasing numbers of immigrants, Paul Gaibazzi sheds light on what it means to stay in one’s country and not migrate. Immigration research […]

Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present

Lovata, Troy, and Elizabeth Olton, eds. 2015. Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to Present utilizes a variety of case studies to explore the various techniques and meanings behind graffiti and opens up spaces to further explore this phenomenon, in […]

Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik. 2017. Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine. Durham: Duke University Press. In Pharmacracy, Thomas Szasz (2001) writes against the appropriation of medicine as a tool of politics. Critical awareness should be fostered against all forms of medicalization and against state control of health. In Pharmocracy, William Faloon (2011) argues that […]