Category Archives: Book Reviews – Volume 39 Issue 2 (May 2012)

My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Bonnie A. Nardi.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Hilde G. Corneliussen
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_1.x/abstract
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Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Identity and Development Politics in Latin America. Monica C. DeHart.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Edward F. Fischer
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_2.x/abstract
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Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement. Christa Craven.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Nadya Burton
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_3.x/abstract
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Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar. Jennifer Cole.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Holly Wardlow
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_4.x/abstract
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Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. Alyshia Gálvez.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Christian Zlolniski
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_5.x/abstract
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The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. Lauren Derby.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Steven Gregory
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_6.x/abstract
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Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. M. Laetitia Cairoli.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Katherine E. Hoffman
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_7.x/abstract
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The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. Kate Ramsey.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Andrew Apter
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_8.x/abstract
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Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. Karen Dubinsky.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Krista E. Van Vleet
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_9.x/abstract
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Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS. Deborah B. Gould.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Richard Joseph Martin
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_10.x/abstract
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Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space. David A. B. Murray, ed.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Mary Gray
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_11.x/abstract
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Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel. Juliana Ochs.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Wendy Pearlman
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_12.x/abstract
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Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Miriam Ticktin.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Carolina Kobelinsky
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_13.x/abstract
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Islam, Politics, Anthropology. Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares, eds.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Robert Hefner
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_14.x/abstract
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Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. Pier Larson.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Jennifer L. Jackson
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_15.x/abstract
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Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Roger N. Lancaster.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Sandra Faiman-Silva
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_16.x/abstract
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I’m neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. Patricia Zavella.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Regina Marchi
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_17.x/abstract
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Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights. Dorothy L. Hodgson.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Gretchen E. Schafft
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_18.x/abstract
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The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. Miliann Kang.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Carrie M. Lane
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_19.x/abstract
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The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals. Vincent Crapanzano.

Published: May 8, 2012
By John R. Bowen
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_20.x/abstract
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Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Johannes Fabian.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Sherry B. Ortner
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_21.x/abstract
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Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement. Tulasi Srinivas.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Smita Lahiri
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_22.x/abstract
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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. Stacey A. Langwick.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Elisha P. Renne
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_23.x/abstract
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Life among the Anthros and Other Essays. Clifford Geertz.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Richard Handler
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_24.x/abstract
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Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Diane Nelson.

Published: May 8, 2012
By Ellen Moodie
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_25.x/abstract
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