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Book Review

Review of Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds. Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani, eds., New York: Routledge, 2015, 269 pp.

Anita Chary

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo. Nancy Rose Hunt, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 353 pp.

David Eaton

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Fertility Holidays. IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness. Amy Speier, New York: New York University Press, 2016, 192 pp.

Christina Weis

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health. Alissa Cordner, New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, 332 pp.

Rachel Washburn

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Holding On: African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS. Alyson O'Daniel, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016, 264 pp.

Martina Thomas

June 1, 2017

Book Review

Review of Smokefree: A Social, Moral and Political Atmosphere. Simone Dennis, London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 198 pp.

Imogen Bevan

June 1, 2017

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