Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review

Review of Planning Families in Nepal. Jan Brunson, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2016, 150 pp.

Kimber McKay

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power. Ludek Broz and Daniel Münster, eds., London: Ashgate, 2015, 224 pp.

Tom Loffhagen

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. Isabell Herrmans, New York: Berghahn, 2014, 304pp.

M. Cameron Hay

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Necropolitics: Mass Graves and the Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 269 pp.

Rachel Carmen Ceasar

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS. Shanti Parikh, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 320 pp.

Margaret S. Winchester

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth. Gaymon Bennett, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, 316 pp.

Nathan Emmerich

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Mental Health in the War on Terror: Culture, Science, and Statecraft. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 214 pp.

Erin P. Finley

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth. Angela N. Casteneda and Julie Johnson Searcy, eds., Bradford: Ontario: Demeter Press, 2015, 252 pp.

Hillary Melchiors

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda. Lydia Boyd, Athens: University of Ohio Press,2015, 252pp.

Susan Reynolds Whyte

March 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Prescribing HIV Prevention: Bringing Culture into Global Health Communication. Nicola Bulled,Vol. 1, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014, 273pp.

Ellen Block

March 1, 2017