Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
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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: 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….
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: 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…
Review Essay: Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans
Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans 2015 has proven to be an exciting time for political anthropology of former…
Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud (2015) is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well…
Gerald Sider’s Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
Race Becomes Tomorrow, Gerald Sider’s exploration of racial formations across time and space, probes the nature of history, time, and…
Book Review: Where Are All Our Sheep? Kyrgyzstan, a Global Political Arena
Boris Petric’s short and accessible book identifies local and global dynamics that have shaped the Kyrgyz Republic since its independence…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 