The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, by Hanna Garth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Maggie…
Book Reviews
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The Everyday Life of Activism [review essay]
by Salman Hussain, York University, Toronto Reviewed in this essay: Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and…
Domestication as Narrative and Politics
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations, edited by Heather Anne Swanson, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, and Gro B….
Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, by Laurence Ralph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). Reviewed by James Perez,…
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…
