Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan by Mirjam Twigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022). Reviewed by Zainab…
Posts Tagged 'ethnography'
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics by Mark Fathi Massoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Reviewed by…
Review Essay: Lives at Borderlands
By Éva Rozália Hölzle, Bielefeld University Reviewed in this Essay: On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border, Billé, Franck…
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. By Elif Babül. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.
Reviewed by, Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz One indication of the quality of a scholarly study is surely the extent…
Beyond and Before Civil War in Lebanon
War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon, by Sami Hermez (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) Reviewed…
The Relevance of Indigeneity in Contemporary Ecuador
Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past: An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community, by…
With “Kathy” and “Vera” in Communist Romania
by Steven Sampson, Lund University My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, by Katherine Verdery (Durham:…
Book Review: Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse
Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…
We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
We Were Adivasis takes readers into the daily lives and aspirations of the Dhanka of Rajasthan—a community that challenges anthropological imaginations. Since the 1950s, the Dhanka have…
We Are the State! Barrio Activism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
Cristobal Valencia has managed to write a rich and entertaining ethnography about the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela while only sparsely mentioning Hugo…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 