Volume 5
2019

Looking Back: 2019 Year in Review In our first ever letter from the editors we wish to return briefly to what we have published during the past year and to look ahead to what is to come. As a journal that exclusively publishes book reviews, we have the privilege of staying abreast of the newest […]

Killias, Olivia. 2018. Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia. Copenhagen, Denmark: NIAS Press. Keywords: labor migration; Southeast Asia; domestic workers; indentured labor; migration regime. In her recently published ethnography, Follow the Maid, Olivia Killias takes the title literally: the reader gets to follow the migratory pathways of young women from the […]

Directed by Rian Brown and Geoff Pingree, 2018. The Foreigner’s Home. The Video Project The Foreigner’s Home is a compelling and poetic film that explores two central concepts in Toni Morrison’s work; the foreigner and the home. The film starts with footage from 2006 when Ms. Morrison was invited by the Louvre in Paris to […]

Reinhard, Andrew. 2018. Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games. New York: Berghahn Books. Keywords: Archaeology; Gaming Studies; Digital Culture; Video Games; Virtual Spaces Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that video games are growing ever more entwined in every aspect of culture in the West and many parts of Asia, from work […]

Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, eds. 2018. The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press. The Promise of Infrastructure is a stellar collection of essays by anthropologists and social scientists who explore roads, buildings, bridges, water meters, pipelines, power stations, and other structures which we encounter on a daily basis but whose contribution to […]

Dalsgard, Anne Line, ed. 2014. Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality: Time Objectified. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. This collection of ethnographic essays outlines the anthropological possibilities of engaging time as an object of study. In proposing a reconsideration of time beyond a commonly assumed abstract linear progression, the contributors to this volume explore the intricacies arising […]

Low, Setha M., ed. 2020. Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. First issued in paperback. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. There has been a growing recognition within anthropology over the past two decades about the need to more seriously engage with topics and issues that are of more direct relevance to […]

Dickens, Ky. 2017, Zero Weeks, Working Films Ky Dickens is the director and the producer of the documentary Zero Weeks which aims to inform and raise awareness about paid family leave in the United States. Zero Weeks presents speeches by activists, economists, policymakers, researchers, a doctor, small and large business owners, in addition to personal stories […]

Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. 2018. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. Durham: Duke University Press. Keywords: Sovereignty; Sexuality; Indigeneity; Colonialism; Land Rights. In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty, author J. Kehaulani Kauanui unearths one historical period, the early- to mid-nineteenth century, to explore transformations wrought by Christianity and the introduction of […]

Brumann, Christoph, and David Berliner, eds. 2016. World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books. Keywords:Heritage, UNESCO, archaeology, ethnography “World Heritage on the Ground,” a collection of ethnographic essays edited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner, examines a wide range of the ways that places have come into relation with heritage regimes by being turned […]

Ahmad, Attiya. 2017. Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait. Durham: Duke University Press. In recent decades, the Arab Gulf has emerged as a site of spectacle, marked by the extravagant architecture and capitalist development projects financed by the region’s oil wealth. Attiya Ahmad’s ethnography “Everyday Conversions,” however, beckons readers […]

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