An Author by Any Other Name
[no-caption] Bill O’Leary/Getty Images Sitting in a packed hotel lobby café in Washington, D.C., in 2009, I leaned closer to the literary agent I was interviewing for my…
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Reviews for Material Vernaculars Titles
The Material Vernaculars book series, published by the Indiana University Press in partnership with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, is maturing. Four titles have now appeared and…
Pantomime Terror
This book is about storytelling and music video – well, also politics and terror, performance and television. HUTNYK_PANTOMIME TERROR The book tunes into music in three acts. I…
Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Ilana Gershon
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper MIT Press, 2017, 416 pages. Neoliberal policy in the United States sometimes seems internally contradictory….
El Congreso 2018 de la Asociación Americana de Antropología
Imagen del Centro de Convenciones de San José,el día anterior al Congreso. Foto GVC. Este año el congreso anual de la Asociación Americana de Antropología fue muchas cosas.…
Patient Zero and the Making of a Myth: History as an Archaeology of the Present by Ketil Slagstad
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Richard A. McKay University of Chicago Press, 2017, 400 pages “An innocent he was not. He eventually told…
Susan Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor by Rebecca Rahimi
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor Susan Merrill Squier Duke University Press, 2017. 280 pages Susan Merrill Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor is positioned at t…
Ramah McKay’s Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique by Britt Halvorson
Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique Ramah McKay Duke University Press, 2018, 256 pages The study of medical humanitarianism has grown tremendously in…
Palma Africana – Taussig
For my notebook on glossy anthropology, this incandescent page from Michael Taussig’s New 2018 book discusses a brochure promoting the devil’s own crop – (the world choking slowly…
Turning the page
This summer I started a new job. My former position, in museums and special collections, was grant funded. We worked that contract until the money was gone. And…
Osagie Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky’s Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics by Travis Chi Wing Lau
Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics Osagie K. Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky (editors) University of California Press, 2018. 518 pages “The science will let loose its cascading interactions wit…
Prisoners of Love
Read the whole thing from Beyond Borders here: Prisoners of Love
Top of the Heap: Reading in pairs with Ayo Wahlberg by Hannah Gibson
For this instalment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Professor Ayo Wahlberg, who is Professor MSO in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He…
The Reproductive and Carceral Politics of Ambiguity by Natali Valdez
Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars Carolyn Sufrin University of California Press, 2017, 311 pages. Jailcare sheds light on a dark place. The ethnography exposes…
Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson’s Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine by Naomi Zucker
Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson (editors) University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 256 pages “The focus on race in medicine and the…
Marx’s Library
From Old Beardo’s library (as listed in the MEGA), the following books related to India or the East India Company have underlining or marginalia by Marx, in blue…
Sharon Batt’s Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Grazia De Michele
Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement Sharon Batt UBC Press, 2017, 383 pages After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, Sharon…
Omar Dewachi’s Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Anna Zogas
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq Omar Dewachi Stanford University Press, 2017. 239 pp. Every year, tens of thousands of Iraqi patients leave their country…
After and Beyond the Genome: Taking Postgenomics Seriously by Maurizio Meloni
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome Jenny Reardon University of Chicago Press, 2017, 304 pages. Genetics: A Situated View How enduring is the…
Agustin Fuentes’s The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Charles C. Roseman
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Agustín Fuentes Penguin, 2017, 352 pages Agustín Fuentes’ The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Fuentes, 2017)…
On Thinking with People and their Escapes: A Review of Unfinished through Storytelling by Onur Günay
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming João Biehl and Peter Locke, editors Duke University Press, 2017. 400 pages. If hierarchy is the key to sociological knowledge production, what…
Buy Books Not Bombs
Buy books at your local bookshop (UK) Ask for Pantomime Terror by John Hutnyk. Zero Books, 2014 ISBN-10: 1782792090 Ask for The Rumour of Calcutta by John Hutnyk. Zed books/Uni Chicago Press, 1996 ISB…