Author: Michael Costello

Dr Michael (Mick) Costello is a Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, where he completed his PhD in 2015. His research and writings cover custom, law and the state, nostalgia and hope, sacred shrines, with fieldwork continuing in the former Soviet Union, especially the Caucasus and the Republic of Abkhazia.

Michael Costello

Dr Michael (Mick) Costello is a Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, where he completed his PhD in 2015. His research and writings cover custom, law and the state, nostalgia and hope, sacred shrines, with fieldwork continuing in the former Soviet Union, especially the Caucasus and the Republic of Abkhazia.

Book Review Reviews

Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing

March, 2018 / By Michael Costello

Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, […]

Reviews Symposium

‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 1/2

March, 2015 / By Michael Costello

Edward Fischer’s volume is an addition to the growing anthropological interest in people’s understanding of “well-being”, looked at through the