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 Reviews
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)…
Review Essay: New Perspectives on Energy
New Perspectives on Energy “In one version of this dictionary, wood – fuel – would be the only entry,” Karen…
Book Review: Catherine Besteman’s Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Catherine Besteman’s Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016) arrived just when the European Union was on the…
