Volume 9
2023

Silvia Rodriguez Vega 2023, Drawing Deportation. Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children, New York University Press, 217 pp, ISBN 9781479810451   Keywords: immigration; deportation; childhood; trauma; creative methods.   In this compelling book, Silvia Rodriguez Vega engages with a challenging task: adding to the vast – and crowded – field of migration studies by focusing […]

KATHERINE MCKITTRICK. 2021. Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham: Duke University Press. 221 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-1104-0   Keywords: black studies, feminist studies, production of knowledge, cultural geography, interdisciplinary   Katherine McKittrick’s Dear Science and Other Stories is pulse, commitment, invitation, groove, gallery, curiosity, and so much more. It beautifully, carefully, and humbly charts black life […]

Eds. by Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Astri Dankertsen, and Marte Winsvold, 2022, An Urban Future for Sápmi? Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-80073-264-3 This timely volume focuses on the Sámi people of the Nordic states—Sweden, Norway, Finland—and Russia. Significantly, it shines a spotlight on the experiences of Indigenous people around the […]

Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alexander Laban Hinton, 2023, Perpetrators Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 253 pp., ISBN 9781503634282.   In Perpetrators Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side, two veteran anthropologists provide the discipline with a set of practical lessons for conducting fieldwork with interlocutors who have participated in mass atrocities. These lessons […]

ALLISON MICKEL. 2021. Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, xiii + 203 pp. ISBN 978-1-64642-114-5. KEY WORDS: Çatalhöyük, community engagement, ethnography of archaeology, lucrative non-knowledge, Petra. ABSTRACT: This monograph is dedicated to the study of locally hired laborers working on archaeological sites […]

Wright, S., Carney, S., Krejsler, J. B., Nielsen, G. B., Ørberg, J. W. (2020). Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective. Springer Nature B. V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1921-4   The anthropology of higher education is a small area in the subfield of the anthropology of education. While most anthropologists who work in education are […]

Eds. by David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson, 2021, The Falls of the Ohio River:  Archaeology of Native American Settlement. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 297 pp. ISBN: 9781683402039. Key Words: Falls of the Ohio River, Landscape Archaeology, Prehistoric Settlement Patterns, Cultural Resource Management, National Historic Preservation Act, Persistent Place, Fort Ancient […]

Keywords: moral economy; parenting and childcare; Latin America; US empire; studying up   Ramos-Zayas’ (2020) ethnography Parenting Empires examines upper class parenting practices in Brazil and Puerto Rico. She argues that US forms of hemispheric control are entrenched in everyday parental routines and aspirations. These include parents’ affective and aesthetic practices, as well as moral […]

DEWAN, CAMELIA. 2021. Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh. Seattle: University of Washington Press. “Climate change is a fact” (p. 74). So begins anthropologist Camelia Dewan’s conversation with a western development professional called Mr. Jones, who works for a prominent aquaculture organization in coastal Bangladesh. Mr. Jones goes on, […]

Goodwin, Michele. 2020. Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminal Costs of Motherhood. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.   While the frenzied calls of Trump rally goers during the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns to jail Hilary Clinton – “lock her up, lock her up!” – was never more than […]

Kishigami, Nobuhiro. 2021. Food Sharing in Human Societies: Anthropological Perspectives, Springer Nature Singapore, ISBN: 9789811678103 In this relatively slim volume, Nobuhiro Kishigami provides a deep examination of an aspect of hunter-gatherer economic systems that is as critical to these systems as is the hunting and harvesting that provide the “stuff” that peoples like Inuit, Ache […]

In the Shadows of the Palm explores how the Marind people in West Papua – colonised by the Indonesian state – experience, conceptualise and contest the social and environmental transformations provoked by deforestation from oil palm expansion. This is a pressing subject in the current moment of global planetary environmental crises as commercial oil palm […]

Keywords: Politics, Revolution, Egypt, Emotions, Masculinity In Egypt’s football revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, Carl Rommel lays out the recent history and rapid changes to the world of football in Egypt. Through detailed analysis of media, sports fans and revolutionary change, the reader follows the trajectory of the ‘national game’ from its peak of […]