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Review of The Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement
No full textThis piece is a review of the Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement, edited by David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alexander Laban Hinton, 2023, Perpetrators Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side
Full text linkIn Perpetrators Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side, two veteran anthropologists provide the discipline with a set of practical lessons for conducting fieldwork with interlocutors who have participated in mass atrocities. These lessons are based on the “practical wisdom” – what the authors also term as phronesis by borrowing from ancient Greek (p. 5) - that they have developed through their decades of research in Argentina and Cambodia, where two politically different kinds of authoritarian regimes unleashed programmes of mass violence on their populations in the 1970s. The book begins with a desire to address “anthropology’s lack of methodological reflection on encounters with perpetrators of mass violence in the field,” but is far more than a methods guide. The book is in part ethnographic self-analysis and in part a Socratic dialogue involving the authors. It begins with theoretical reflections on what perpetration means (Introduction), and continues to examine the problems that ethnographers face when conducting research with agents of violence (Part I including Chapters 1 and 2), the marks that these violent interlocutors leave on the researchers (Part II including Chapters 3 and 4), and the problem of ethnographically writing about difficult and violent subjects (Part III including Chapters 5 and 6). Each part is introduced by interludes which set out the themes examined in the subsequent chapters
Sharing the Camera. A Guide to Collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking (2022): Martub Gruber
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MARTIN GRUBER, 2022, Sharing the Camera. A Guide to Collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking, Sean Kingston Publishing, 182 pp., ISBN: 978-1-912385-44-7
Wright et al. 2019. Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective.
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Wright et al. 2019. Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies (2019): Edited by Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita
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CASPER BRUUN JENSEN & ATSURO MORITA, eds. 2019. Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN: 978178920539
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (2023): Shenila Khoja-Moolji
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Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 2023, Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Socialit
Stone, Nomi. 2022. Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
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Stone, Nomi. 2022. Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire. Oakland: University of California Press, 307pp. ISBN: 978052097549
Review of Egypt’s football revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
No full textIn Egypt’s football revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, Carl Rommel lays out the recent history and rapid changes to the world of football in Egypt. Through detailed analysis of media, sports fans and revolutionary change, the reader follows the trajectory of the ‘national game’ from its peak of popular attraction to its fall into obscurity. With a focus on affect and emotions, this tale of football in Egypt is also one that tells of how the masculine national subject is supposed to feel, act and react to events that bring people, places, old and new media together like no other.  
An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts (2022): By David Zeitlyn
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Zeitlyn, David. 2022. An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts. New York: Berghahn Books, 150 pg., ISBN 978-1-80073-470-