Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…
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…
Cristobal Valencia has managed to write a rich and entertaining ethnography about the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela while only sparsely mentioning Hugo…
For more than three decades, Asia’s uneven development, intensifying globalization, and changing demography have dramatically increased demands for reproductive labor in the private…
In addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight (2015) provides an ethnographic portrait of extremely marginalized, drug-using, and pregnant women living in the daily-rent hotels (referred to as “single room occupancy” housing, or SROs) of…
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands is an ethnography of the drug industry’s asymmetrical distribution…
Sexual violence has recently received considerable media attention, featuring stories of campus rape in the U.S., and sexual assault in…
A growing number of international relations scholars recognise the shortcomings in the traditional assumptions about the Westphalian political system; assumptions…
Susan Slyomovics, an anthropologist and specialist in Middle Eastern and North African societies, has written a book that is part…
The Reappeared presents a short but insightful study of the experiences of those who survived political imprisonment and torture…