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To Hear and Feel the Noise through the Glitch
Full text linkTo Hear and Feel the Noise through the Glitc
Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City
Full text linkLife Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the Cit
Uimonen, Paula, and Flora Nwapa. 2020. Invoking Flora Nwapa: Nigerian Women Writers, Femininity and Spirituality in World Literature. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University Press.
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Precolumbian syncretism among the Classic Maya, a review of Maya Gods of War
Full text linkThis is a review of Karen Bassie-Sweet's volume "Maya Gods of War
Locating the materiality of anxiety and magical practices in Puritanical New England
Full text linkThis book review for The Archaeology of Magic: Gender and Domestic Protection in Seventeenth-Century New England, published in 2020 by C. Riley Augé. This book aims to explore how seventeenth century British colonists, new to New England, engaged in magical practice, specifically apotropaic or protective practices, and whether that practice differed across gender. As Augé explores, the practice and belief in magic is ubiquitous across time and cultures, so that the methodological and interpretative practices outlined in this book can serve as a template even to archaeologists studying disparate locals. Overall, the book is successful in this endeavor, Augé lays out a logical and straightforward method to not only designing an archaeological approach that is specific to the excavation of magical material culture but also ways in which to examine past excavations for such evidence. While this approach and methodological considerations are well founded for the topic, the analysis of why men and women differently utilized apotropaic practices is not fully flushed out in the present study
‘White gold’: Cultivating salt and saline spaces in Senegal
Full text linkLa dynamique saline est perçue dans ce livre comme une opportunité de développement territorial. Cette approche combine les manifestations physiques de la dynamique saline et de la variabilité climatique comme facteur de production du sel et les initiatives locales d'exploitation du sel comme forme d'appropriation des conséquences de ces dynamiques. Cet ouvrage traite les conditions environnementales et sociales d'un terroir sahélien. Il cible de façon spécifique les dynamiques de développement territorial à travers la valorisation d'une potentialité et richesse identitaire et spécifique du « Haut Saloum » : le sel
Dreams of wealth: finance and dystopia in the European periphery
Full text linkMaterialized by the ten-year urban expansion known as Skopje 2014, launched and guided by Nikola Gruevski (exiled since 2018), financial expansion gave to most North Macedonian construction workers debts leading to a slow social death. Drawing on rich ethnographic, historic and economic data, Mattioli chronicles the financial disenchantment of male construction workers of the company Construx. The book is an important contribution to a broad number of disciplines focused on the conversations engaged between the EU, finance and authoritarian regimes in peripheral European countries
Microcosms of power dynamics: The hidden world of pharmaceutical testing
Full text linkAdverse Events is the product of over a decade of work, incorporating challenging ethnographic field work with theoretical consideration. At its core, it is a book about social inequality in a disconcerting place. This book is an excellent read both for readers interested in the sociology and anthropology of healthcare and medical environment, as well as for readers with interests in labor and Critical Race and Gender Studies, who want to see how an environment traditionally imagined as ‘objective’ or ‘sterile’ is, in fact, affected by stigmas and bias. The effects—and events—are indeed adverse and serious
Re-politicizing Tourism
Full text linkMadilde Córdoba Azcárate, Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-34449-