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An Unseen Side of our Global Migrant Crisis
Get PDFThis is a review of Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco, (OUP, 2020) by writer, filmmaker, and human rights activist, Isabella Alexander-Nathani. Burning at Europe’s Borders addresses what is now universally known as the African migrant crisis, a long-standing problem first brought to the world’s attention by the tragic April 2011 shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy. It presents a composite picture of migration by privileging the unmediated voices of the migrants themselves as well as offers a searing indictment of Europe’s dereliction of its much trumpeted enlightenment values. The book focuses more specifically on the oft-ignored experiences of black Africans in the Maghreb
Historical Forensics: The use of Medicine and Forensic principles in Bioarchaeological and Historic Research
Get PDFWhen Science Sheds Light on History by Philippe Charlier is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research in biological anthropology, medicine, and history. The book, while in no way intended for specialists, provides readers with case studies spanning from Mesolithic Morocco (9,000 BC) through 19th-century colonial encounters while simultaneously exposing the audience to a range of relevant ethical considerations. The book is divided into four parts that explore health and disease chronologically with a variety of materials ranging from physical human remains, autopsy reports, to death masks, and more. The book opens with Charlier and others who argue in support of interdisciplinary approaches in forensic and paleopathological research to both inform on health and disease throughout the human experience and to advance methodologies in the disciplines
Building Community in Coastal Deserts: Perspectives from Western South America
Get PDFMichael Moseley emphasized the importance of maritime resources to the development of social complexity in the Andean region in his theory of the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization (1975), which became a central (and controversial) text in the field. This volume builds on his and others’ foundational work and asks, “how did ancient Andean coastal communities build themselves, and their identities, around their proximity to the Pacific Ocean”
Fixations, Charismatic technologies and the perennial enthusiasm of techno-solutionism
Get PDFWorks Reviewed: Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism, by Christo Sims, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, 232 pp., 35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978026253744
Gender, Disability, and Abandonment in the Aftermath of War
Get PDFGender, Disability, and Abandonment in the Aftermath of Wa
Raising the Veil: New Clues into Unique Burial Practices
Get PDFWhat makes a burial atypical and how are they identifiable? That is the central question of The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Experiences of Atypical Burials, edited by Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki. The edited volume expands on the works of Eileen Murphy's (2008), Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record, and Andrew Reynold's (2009), Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs, through nineteen case studies that investigate a variety of atypical burial treatments as well as inherent parallels in how death is treated by past peoples through time and space. By bringing together a diverse group of bioarchaeological scholars who use integrated biocultural approaches on contextual non-normative samples from several geographic regions and temporal periods, the edited volume asks questions about how we understand atypical burials and advances the study of the topic
The sunset of human rights and working with emotions
Get PDFThe sunset of human rights and working with emotion