Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East
Navigating Northeast Asia in Vladivostok: A Review of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East (Российский Государственный Исторический Архив Дальнего Востока), Vladivostok, Russia…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Anthropology of the Flashmob
A review of Scenes of Chaos and Joy: Playing and Performing Selves in Digitally Virtu/Real Places, by Denice Joy Szafran. Denise Joy Szafran’s dissertation is…
Colonial Scientific Literature of the Americas
A review of Mining Empire, Planting Empire: The Colonial Scientific Literatures of the Americas, by Allison Margaret Bigelow. Mining Empire, Planting Empire is at once…
Changing Ideals of Nourishment & Health in Guatemala
A review of The Weight of the Body: Changing Ideals of Fatness, Nourishment, and Health in Guatemala, by Emily Yates-Doerr. Incidence of metabolic illness in…
Ritual Theory in Early & Medieval China
A review of Embodying the Way: Bio-spiritual Practices and Ritual Theories in Early and Medieval China, by Ori Tavor. What is ritual, why do people…
Clocks & Time in Edo Japan
A review of Clocks and Time in Edo Japan, by Yulia Frumer. The logic of mechanical clock faces is seemingly obvious. We look at them…
Pastoral Activism & Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia
A review of The White Priest at Work: Orthodox Pastoral Activism and the Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia, by Daniel Scarborough. Drunken, uneducated puppets…
Ambiguity in Arabic Philosophy of Language
A review of A Linguistic Frame of Mind: ar-Rāġib al-Iṣfahānī and What It Meant to Be Ambiguous, by Alexander Key. Despite medieval Arabic culture’s “obsession with…
Venezuela & the Haitian Revolution
A review of Rumors of Change: Repercussions of Caribbean Turmoil and Social Conflicts in Venezuela (1790-1810), by Maria Cristina Soriano. Maria Cristina Soriano’s dissertation contributes…
Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg
A review of The Institute of Experimental Medicine (Научно–исследовательный институт экспериментальной медицины) (St. Petersburg). In November of last year, I had the opportunity to visit…