April 2020

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Taste, Territory, and “the People,” At the Edge of the State, and Expedient Ethnography.

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Author Biographies

Volume 62, Issue 2

Meet the authors of the 62-2 issue, April 2020.

Behind the Scenes

Of Tefillin, Textiles, and Tech?

Samuel Sami Everett explores multiple dimensions of distance that shape his relationship to the Parisian neighborhood of le Sentier, the location of his study of multireligious ethno-commercial exchanges in his CSSH article, “Une Ambiance Diaspora: Continuity and Change in Parisian Maghrebi Imaginaries.”

On the Syllabus

Decades on Disease

As coronavirus (COVID-19) commands attention worldwide, CSSH turns to its archives to gain insight. Here we have collected decades of excellent scholarship on disease and epidemics.

Kudos

March 2020

Congratulations to Michael Peletz on the publication of his book Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary (University of California Press, 2020).

Anti-Caste Activism and Dwindling Numbers: David Mosse and Michal Kravel-Tovi discuss Diasporic Anxieties among British South Asians and American Jews

CSSH authors David Mosse and Michal Kravel-Tovi share insights into diasporic anxieties by comparing the contests that arise when ethno-religious communities (Hindus, Jews) reproduce themselves, simultaneously, in diaspora settings (Britain, the US) and in homeland states (India, Israel).

Essays for all seasons: 2019

CSSH celebrates the most downloaded articles of 2019!

Volume 62, #1 // January 2020

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Diaspora Anxieties, Politics of Atmosphere and Ambiance, and Archival Mediations and Meditations.

Volume 62, Issue 1

Meet the authors of the 62-1 issue, January 2020.

December 2019

Congratulations to Sheetal Chhabria on the publication of her new book, Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay (University of Washington Press, 2019).

CSSH Publications on Enslavement and Forced Labor

Since its inception, CSSH has published groundbreaking essays on slavery, enslaved persons, and (forced) labor across different time periods and geographic locations. Inspired by The New York Times’s “The 1619 Project,” we’ve put together a selection of these essays going back almost sixty years.

Distinguishing Types and Discourses of Indigeneity: A Conversation with Andrew Canessa, Winner of the 2019 Jack Goody Award

We are delighted to announce (again) that Andrew Canessa has won the 2019 Jack Goody Award for his essay, “Indigenous Conflict in Bolivia Explored through an African Lens: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Indigeneity.”

Finding Metaphysics and Meaning in Self-Help Literature

Arthur Shiwa Zárate shares insights into the journey that led to the research he conducted for his CSSH essay, “The American Sufis: Self-Help, Sufism, and Metaphysical Religion in Postcolonial Egypt.”

Volume 61, #4 // October 2019

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Biological Translations; Mobility and Sedentarization; Self-Help; Moral Violence and Restraint.

November 2019

Congratulations to Selim Deringil on the publication of his edited volume, The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War (Academic Studies Press, 2019).