CALL FOR REVIEWS: NEW BOOKS ON THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION REGIME
Three years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A […]
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
Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. A Conversation with Stuart Kirsch
How can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their
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