Volume 62, #3 // July 2020
The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Icons of Racism and their Afterlives, Contamination and the Half-Life of History, and The Good Kill: Law, Ethics, Technique.
Understanding “Cultural Understanding”: Julie Gibbings and Jacob Tropp follow the concept from coffee plantations to Indian reservations, counterinsurgency campaigns, and the careers of international development experts
In our Spring 2020 issue, Julie Gibbings and Jacob Tropp guide us through several telling cases of cultural, or intercultural, understanding. Our editors saw “expediency” as a theme that unites the essays, but there are many others. Tropp and Gibbings tell us more.
Volume 62, Issue 3
Meet the authors of the 62-3 issue, July 2020.
The Holy Grail of Terroir and Territory in Israel/Palestine
In this essay, Daniel Monterescu and Ariel Handel take us “behind the scenes” of the disciplinary and geopolitical border-crossing fieldwork that formed the basis of their recent CSSH article, “Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land.”
May 2020
Congratulations to Marc Baer on the publication of his new book, “German, Jew, Muslim, Gay:
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus” (Columbia University Press, 2020).
Volume 62, #2 // 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.
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.
Volume 62, Issue 2
Meet the authors of the 62-2 issue, April 2020.
April 2020
CSSH congratulates Carole McGranahan on the publication of her new book, Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, and to Jatin Dua for the recent publication of his manuscript, Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean.
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.”
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).