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Book Review: First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar by N.P. Devir
No full textDevir, N. P. First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar. Leiden: Brill, 2022
Book Review: Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville
No full textReview of: Monaville, Pedro. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in theCongo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022
“Dismantle or Step Aside”: The Road to HIV Racial Justice Now! and The Push for Racial Liberation in the Domestic HIV Movement
No full textWhile there have been tremendous advancements in HIV prevention, treatment, research, and care, vast health disparities still exist across race and ethnicity, as Black and Latinx people continue to have disproportionate rates of new HIV cases. Despite this fact, funding toward and implementation of policies that meet the needs of most impacted communities are virtually non-existent. Moreover, meaningful and impactful discussions about HIV have always required analyzing interlocking systems of privilege and oppression. Thus, in 2017, a group of scholars and activists of color developed HIV Racial Justice Now!, a nationwide grassroots coalition dedicated to advancing a racially just framework for the domestic HIV epidemic. In addition to developing The Declaration, a framework that can be used to push for racial liberation, HRJN disrupts traditional notions of HIV rhetoric, racial justice, and public memory by decentering whiteness in the domestic HIV movement
Book Review: Interrogating Gendered Pathologies, Edited by Erin A. Frost & Michelle F. Eble
No full textBook Review: Interrogating Gendered Pathologies. Erin A. Frost & Michelle F. Eble, Eds. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2020. 279 pages, 28.95 e-book, $14.50 30-day e-book rental.
Publisher webpage: https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3819-interrogating-gendered-pathologies
Review by Julie Gerdes, Department of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
E-mail: [email protected]
Date Posted: June 2023
Recommended Citation: Gerdes, Julia. (2023) “Book review: Interrogating Gendered Pathologies,” Rhetoric of Health & Medicine: Vol. 6: Iss. 3
Paradoxes and Anomalies in Caribbean Anti-Trafficking Law and Practice
No full textThis article critically assesses existing state practices on human trafficking in the Caribbean. More specifically, through analysis of empirical data gleaned from semi-structured interviews with fifty stakeholders (government officials and nongovernmental organization representatives) in twelve Caribbean countries, this article assesses the four main contentious areas of state practice with which regional stakeholders are most concerned: the description of “trafficking in persons” as “modern slavery,” the illegitimacy of the US TIP Reports, investigations into trafficking in persons, and victim identification and referral. This article presents postcolonial critiques of anti-trafficking law and practice in the foregoing four areas
Book Review: A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa
No full textReview of d’Avignon, Robyn. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge inSavannah West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022
Book Review: Doctoral Training and Higher Education in Africa by Christine Scherer and R. Sooryamoorthy
No full textReview of: Scherer, Christine, and R. Sooryamoorthy. Doctoral Training and Higher Education in Africa. Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2022
Book Review: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vincente L. Rafael
No full textReview of: Rafael, Vicente L. The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022
Exploring Intersectional Identities and Geographic Origins in Ancient Nubia at Tombos, Sudan
No full textAs part of an intersectional investigation of changes in identity and lifeways during sociopolitical changes in the ancient Nile Valley, strontium isotope analysis has provided a useful entry for understanding local practices. At the site of Tombos, human residential mobility was spurred through Egyptian imperial actions in Nubia during the New Kingdom period (~1450–1050 B.C.). During this period, immigrants and locals interacted and influenced cultural symbols displayed in burials with migration ending with Egyptian occupation. Through the examination of multiple overlapping identities and experiences, patterns emerge. Isotopically identified locals are exclusive in tumulus graves and flexed body position (all skeletally sexed as female), consistent with the surrounding region.However, locals also used materials and practices associated with the colonizers, including pyramid, chapel, and shaft tomb types; extended body position; coffins; and artifacts. These variations provide evidence of simultaneous experiences of multiple social statuses at Tombos. The findings provide fruitful avenues to explore motivations for varying identity expression related to such ideas as family traditions, religious beliefs, gender dynamics, deliberate signaling, and the concept of foreignness. Theoretical and intersectional approaches to isotope analyses also necessitate a reassessment of methodological, analytical, and ethical issues associated with research.
ً ً مفيدا لفهم الممارسات المحلية كجزء من الدراسات المتداخلة حول تغيرات الهوية وسبل الحياة خالليقدم تحليل نظائر االكسجين مدخالالتغيرات االجتماعية والسياسية في وادي النيل القديم. أدت اإلجراءات التي قامت بها اإلمبراطورية المصرية )1450–1050 ق.م( في اقليم النوبةوفي موقع تمبس على األخص الي تنقالت سكانية. تفاعل المهاجرون الجدد مع السكان المحليون خالل هذه المرحلة وكان لها تأثير واضحعلى الرموز الثقافية بالمدافن في المنطقة حتى نهاية االحتالل المصري. تظهر األنماط الثقافية من خالل معرفة الهويات والتجارب المتعددةالمتداخلة حيث اثبتت نتائج تحليل نظائر االكسجين أن السكان المحليين الذين تم التعرف عليهم في مقابر األكوم ووضع المتوفي فيها بشكلمنثني جميعها هياكل عظمية إلناث، ويتوافق هذا النمط مع المنطقة المحيطة.استخدم السكان المحليون في تلك المرحلة مواد مع بعض الممارسات المختلفة المرتبطة بالمستعمرين بما في ذلك مقابر الهرم والمعابدًالجنائزية والمقابر ذات المدخل العمودي الراسي باإلضافة الي وضع الجسم الممتد والتوابيت والمصنوعات اليدوية. قدمت هذه االكتشافات دليالعلى تجارب متزامنة لحاالت اجتماعية متعددة في موقع قرية تمبس. كما وفرت هذه النتائج طرق ناجعة في دراسة التعبير عن الهوية بطرقمتباينة ترتبط ببعض المفاهيم مثل التقاليد االسرية، المعتقدات الدينية، حيوية النوع البشري، مفهوم الغربة و تبادل اإلشارات المتعمدة. كما انً إلعادة النظر وتقييم بعض قضايا المنهجية والتحليل وأخالق البحث العلميالمناهج النظرية وتداخل العلوم مع تحاليل النظائر ضرورية ايضاالمرتبطة بالدراسة.ا
Growing Old in the Industrial Age: Aging, Health, and Social Identity in Elderly Women (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries A.D.)
No full textThe elderly have been neglected within bioarchaeological discourse, partly due to limitations in current osteological techniques for identifying older adults. Historical evidence suggests that older women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were often denigrated and neglected, but this has yet to be fully explored within bioarchaeological research. This study aims to investigate elderly underrepresentation in bioarchaeological discourse, and the biological and social impact of aging on women in eighteenthandnineteenth century England.
Archival sources were integrated with skeletal evidence from two eighteenth–nineteenth-century cemeterysites and a contemporaneous dataset of individuals of known age-at-death. This formed the interpretative basis for osteological case studies of two women aged 88 and 64 years at death (based on coffin plates). Older adult females from the known age-at-death sample were more frequently placed in the “18+ years” age-at-death category than males. This is partly due to preservation bias driven by factors such as osteoporosis and smaller bone size. Paleopathological analysis revealed the impact of conditions associated with bodily degeneration in older adults, and the osteobiographies identified risks associated with reduced bone density and susceptibility to fragility fractures for aging women. Archival cause-of-death data indicated that older women were more likely than older men to be recorded as dying of “old age,” revealing gendered social perceptions aligned to aging.
Studies encompassing both historical and osteoarchaeological sources can further our knowledge regarding the elderly in the past, particularly those underrepresented within bioarchaeological assemblages, and reflect on persistent gendered social perceptions of these groups in the present.
Los ancianos son frecuentemente ignorados en el discurso bioarqueológico, en parte debido a las limitaciones de las técnicas osteológicas actuales para identificar adultos de edad avanzada. Las evidencias históricas sugieren que las mujeres mayores de los siglos XVIII y XIX eran a menudo denigradas y desatendidas, aunque esto aún no se ha explorado todavía a fondo dentro de la investigación bioarqueológica. Este estudio pretende investigar la infrarrepresentación de las personas mayores en el discurso bioarqueológico y el impacto biológico y social del envejecimiento para las mujeres de la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII-XIX.
Las fuentes archivísticas han sido consideradas junto a las evidencias esqueléticas procedentes de dos cementerios de los siglos XVIII y XIX, además de los datos de individuos contemporáneos de edad de muerte conocida. Esto sirvió de base interpretativa para el estudio osteológico de los casos de dos mujeres de 88 y 64 años (según las placas de los ataúdes). Las mujeres adultas mayores de la muestra de edad de fallecimiento conocida se clasificaron con más frecuencia que los hombres en la categoría de edad de “+18 años.” Esto se debe en parte a un sesgo de conservación debido a factores como la osteoporosis y el menor tamaño de los huesos. El análisis paleopatológico reveló el impacto de las afecciones osteológicas degenerativas en los ancianos, y las osteobiografías identificaron los riesgos asociados a la reducción de la densidad ósea y la mayor susceptibilidad a las fracturas por fragilidad en las mujeres con el avance de la edad. Los datos de archivo sobre las causas de la muerte indicaban que las mujeres de edad más avanzada tenían más probabilidades que los hombres de morir de “vejez,” lo que revela percepciones sociales de género relacionadas con el envejecimiento.
Los estudios que abarcan tanto fuentes históricas como osteoarqueológicas pueden ampliar nuestro conocimiento sobre los ancianos en el pasado, especialmente aquellos individuos infrarrepresentados en los conjuntos bioarqueológicos, y hacernos reflexionar sobre las percepciones sociales de género persistentes sobre estos grupos en el presente