Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
A close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how […]
Managing Ambiguity
In her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in
The Erotics of History
Donald Donham’s The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example is not a traditional ethnography. The author first became aware
Le plus beau métier du monde
Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in
State of Rebellion
In State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency
Odudwa’s Chain
This seamless compilation of essays has the feel of a life’s work. Through the lens of his scholarship on the
Living by the gun
Outside observers have often interpreted Chad’s long history with rebellion as reflective of internal chaos and questionable moralities. Marielle Debos
Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations
Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic
Monrovia Modern
Monrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and