Review Essay: On Knowing Addiction
On Knowing Addiction In June 2018, artists placed a 700-pound sculpture of a massive spoon used for cooking heroin outside…
Book Reviews
Review Essay: Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism
Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest…
Review Essay: On the State of the Shari’a
“What has all this Law to do with real life?,” asked the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (d. 1936) as…
Book Review: Alicia Peters’ Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender and Culture in the Law
Alicia Peters’ comprehensive study, Responding to Human Trafficking, makes a strong argument for a victim-centered approach to law-making and law…
Review Essay: Change and Continuity in China
The grand narrative social scientists tell of twenty-first century China is one of rapid, drastic change. While sociocultural anthropologists have…
Review Essay: Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk
Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk As an epistemology and as a language of argumentation, political economy…
Review Essay: Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints
Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints The topic of migration has been a…
Review Essay: Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity
Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity In 1993, pop/rock icon Prince caused a stir…
Review Essay: After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East “Social movements are a messy affair” (p….
Book Review: Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil
Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (2015)…
