Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India by Yamini Narayanan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press,…
Book Reviews
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana by Serena Owusua Dankwa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) Reviewed by…
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, by Mukulika Banerjee. (Oxford University Press, 2022) Reviewed by Bart Klem, Gothenburg…
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine by Greta Lynn Uehling. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023). Reviewed by…
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe, by Apostolos Andrikopoulos (The University of Chicago…
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon by Maya Mikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022) Reviewed by Sami…
Review Essay: An Anarchist Present in Lowland Southeast Asia?
Reviewed in this essay: Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar. Gerard McCarthy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,…
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe by Andrea Muehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023). Reviewed by Kailey…
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India by Kriti Kapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022) Reviewed by…
Review Essay: Intimacy, Violence, and Partings
Reviewed in this essay: Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan by Allison Alexy (Chicago and…