July 2021

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Islam and Masculinity; Hijacking the Human; Sentimental States; Inequality in Piketty

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Author Biographies

Volume 63, Issue 3

Meet the authors of the 63-3 issue, July 2021.

Kudos

June 2021

Congratulations to CSSH authors Rebecca Bryant, Malini Sur, and Melissa Demian for their new books!

Behind the Scenes

Death and Burial: The Affinity of Journalism and Ethnography

In this companion essay to his recent CSSH article, “Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis,” Wale Adebanwi discusses the insights revealed by returning as an anthropologist to events first explored as a journalist.

Under the Rubric

Borderland Beliefs

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky and Mathijs Pelkmans discuss questions of sincerity, rumor, and religious hierarchy at the frontiers of Muslim-Christian conversion in late imperial Russia and contemporary Kyrgyzstan.

In Memoriam: Marshall Sahlins

CSSH joins all of Anthropology in mourning the loss of Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021). He wrote one of our mostly widely cited articles, “Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia,” which we are making available gratis in his memory. He was a big man and a chief among CSSH authors. We…

April 2021

This month, CSSH celebrates the recent accomplishments of our editors, Geneviève Zubrzycki and Paul Christopher Johnson!

Volume 63, #2 // April 2021

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Empire and Ethnicity; Subterranean Politics: Soil and Coal; Tea Leaves; and Embodied Reading.

Volume 63, Issue 2

Meet the authors of the 63-2 issue, April 2021.

“Battle of Agencies” Released

Ali Sipahi describes how the Gezi Park protests of 2013 transformed his thinking about the 1985 massacres of Armenians in Harput, Turkey, analyzed in his recent CSSH essay, “Deception and Violence in the Ottoman Empire: The People’s Theory of Crowd Behavior during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895.”

Youth against Empire

CSSH authors Stacey Hynd and Myles Osborne discuss their research on local insurgencies, global cultures of resistance, and anti-colonial youth politics in the 1950s.

Volume 63, #1 // January 2021

The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: “Big Men” Pasts; Making Human Kinds in Africa and China; Mapping Social Geography; and Religious Conversion at the Frontier.