The Jewish Body in Postwar France
A review of L’Esprit du Corps: Bodies, Communities, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in France, 1914–1940, by Erin Corber. It is no mystery, now…
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Envy and Pottery Making in Aguabuena, Colombia
A review of Locations of Envy: An Ethnography of Aguabuena Potters, by Daniella Castellanos Montes. Locations of Envy is based upon long-term ethnographic fieldwork with…
African Immigrant Nurses in the United States
A Review of Nursing the Nation: Globalization, Gender, Race, State, and African Immigrant Women in Health Care Work in the United States of America, by…
Weimar Germany: Music, Modernity, and Tradition
A review of The Promise of Tradition: Music, Modernity, and Mass Society in Weimar Germany, by Brendan Fay. Brendan Fay has a bone to pick…
Patronage and Music Composition in France
A review of Toward a Theory of Patronage: Funding for Music Composition in France, 1918–1939, by Louis Epstein. Louis Epstein’s dissertation, “Toward a Theory of…