Happy Thanksgiving!
With Thanksgiving on Thursday November 28, we will take a one-week break and return on Monday December 2. Safe travels! With best wishes from the…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Sex Workers & HIV in India
A review of ‘Flying’ Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using ‘Cultural Biography’ to Understand HIV Risk Perception, by Sunny Sinha. Sunny Sinha’s dissertation, a…
Political Religion & the Khmer Rouge
A review of Pol Pot’s Total Revolution: An Inquiry of Democratic Kampuchea as a Political Religion, by Steven Michael DeBurger. Pol Pot’s Total Revolution offers…
Politics of Community for Vietnamese Lesbians
A review of A Queer Political Economy of “Community”: Gender, Space, and the Transnational Politics of Community for Vietnamese Lesbians (les) in Saigon, by Natalie…
Assisted Reproduction in Mexico
A review of The Sociocultural Aspects of Assisted Reproduction in Mexico by Sandra P. González-Santos. Reproduction is just as political a matter as Marx made…
Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science
A review of Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science, by Lukas Benjamin Rieppel. Lukas Rieppel leads us on a gallivanting romp through turn-of-the-twentieth-century America, in…
Guomindang Party Archives (Taiwan)
A Review of the Guomindang Party Archives (中國國民黨黨史館) (Taipei, Taiwan). The Guomindang Party Archives originally operated within the former Guomindang Central Party Headquarters on Chung-shan…
Indo-Portuguese Identity Formation & Print Media
A Review of 19th Century Periodicals of Portuguese India: An Assessment of Documentary Evidence and Indo-Portuguese Identity, by Liladhar Ramchandra Pendse. Liladhar Ramchandra Pendse’s dissertation…
Museum of Church History, Taiwan
A Review of Tainan Chang Jung Senior High School, Museum of Church History (臺南長榮高級中學教會史料館), Tainan, Taiwan. Those working in the field of Christian missionary movements…
Struggles Over Health in Colonial Jamaica
A review of Health and the Politics of “Improvement” in British Colonial Jamaica, 1914-1945, by Darcy Hughes Heuring. The health of the Jamaican population was…