Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, by Laurence Ralph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). Reviewed by James Perez,…
Book Reviews
On Mexican Transnational Families
by Gail Mummert, El Colegio de Michoacán Reviewed in this essay: Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and…
Contraband Corridor
Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border, by Rebecca Berke Galemba (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by…
Planning for War in Beirut
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers, by Hiba Bou Akar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by…
The Blood and Guts in Modern Institutions
Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era, edited by Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin. (Baltimore: Johns…
Killing your Neighbors
Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond, by Jon D. Holtzman (Oakland: University of California Press,…
Secularism and Islamic Divorce in India
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, by Katherine Lemons (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019) Reviewed…
Inundated and Occupied
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Kareem Rabie,…
History and Culture of Policing on Taiwan
Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan, by Jeffrey T. Martin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,…
Best Practices in the Anthropology of Finance
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China, by Kimberly Chong (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018) Reviewed…
