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…
Posts Tagged 'law'
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…
Review Essay: Consent in the Era of #MeToo
We’re in an ongoing cultural moment for discussing the sexual abuse of power. Whether the Church, Hollywood, or Congress; Roy…
Book Review: Tina Lee’s Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System
Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System Tina Lee (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University…
Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology, and Surveillance
Many years ago, while conducting research in a small coastal community, I was walking the docks. A bird caught my…
Review Essay: Regimes of Expertise and the Law
As the internal workings of the state—and not just the state’s effects on others—become ever more central to anthropological inquiry…
Tobias Kelly’s This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Tobias Kelly’s critical, historically informed, and carefully researched book on the evolving concept of torture is an exciting and useful…