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REVIEW: Blanchette, Alex. 2020. Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, & the factory farm. Duke University Press
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The power of drugs: Implications from substance-use in ancient cultures
Get PDFAncient Psychoactive Substances is an endeavor in the history of what the contemporary society perceives and classifies as both illegal and legal mind-altering substances. Edited by Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick, this investigation and anthology draws from numerous sources in a cross-disciplinary manner, ranging from biomolecular analysis to interpretations of the substance-use itself and the social context it was consumed in. Not only does Ancient Psychoactive Substances give a fascinating historical account of the cultural settings of former substance-use, it also highlights the emergence of the research field in question. Specifically, central to the volume is the relationship between that of mind-altering substances and people. Ultimately, the practice of substance-use seems to transcend both cultures and time, with great implications for further research.
(Dis)connections: migration, transnationalism, and global capitalism between Haiti and the United States
Get PDFReview of Migration and Vodou (2nd edition with a new preface) by Karen E. Richman (University Press of Florida, 2018)
A Tale of Two Ek’Balams: Opportunities and Challenges of Community-based Tourism Development Among the Yucatán Maya
Get PDFA review of Sarah Taylor's 2018 On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage Politics and Community Development in Yucatán
A Closer Look at the Livelihoods of Children in the Past
Get PDFIn past mortuary research earlier views of children within the archaeological discipline have often painted pictures of them as being irrelevant to socioeconomic life in past societies. Moreover, adult burials received preferential treatment over nonadult burials for analysis, which lead to incomplete perceptions about personhood, social adulthood, conceptions of gender, and/or pre-adolescent social identity. However, over the past two decades, archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have been paying increasing attention to infants and children and they're being recognized as active agents within their communities, and that their funerary treatments can provide significant information towards societal biosocial contexts. The Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology volume edited by Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina Agarwal highlights the importance of nonadult studies by bringing together a wide-range of bioarchaeological scholars who discuss biocultural, life history, and life-course approaches towards enriching children and childhood studies in antiquity that integrate socio-cultural, biological, and archaeological lines of evidence.
Book Review: Zlolniski, Christian (2019) Made in Baja: the lives of farmworkers and growers behind Mexico’s transnational agricultural boom, University of California Press: Oakland, CA
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Book Review Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
No full textIn the 21st century, older people’s aging trajectories are increasingly influenced by transnational migration, either their own or that of their children, or sometimes both. How do these mobilities affect intergenerational relationships and conceptualizations of care within families?In the edited book Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work, Parin Dossa and Cati Coe shed light into the significance, asymmetries and tensions of reciprocal and intergenerational familial ties regarding care and kin work, both reconfigured within transnational contexts. In nine chapters, this volume presents ethnographic case studies from across the globe that document the multiple intertwining of aging, migration and kin work and how different dynamics, practices and processes of transnational care (re)shape experiences of aging as part of the life course
Marketing to Potential Soldiers Through Video Games
Get PDFThis is a review of Robertson Allen's America's Digital Army: Games at Work and War