The Work of Domestic Service in Contemporary Morocco
A review of Hired to be daughters: Domestic service among ordinary Moroccans, by Mary Elizabeth Montgomery. “Domesticity in Morocco has…
Decolonising Anglo-Indians
A review of Decolonising Anglo-Indians: Strategies for a Mixed Race Community in Late Colonial India during the First Half of…
Assessing the Reliability of Prophecy
A review of Knowledge by Way of Prophecy, by Dani W. Rabinowitz. Dani Rabinowitz offers an original argument to the…
Material Culture and the Making of the Northern Wei in China
A review of The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period…
Iranian Religious Intellectuals and the “Islamist Left”
A review of Disenchanting Political Theology in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Reform, Religious Intellectualism and the Death of Utopia, by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi.…
Chinese International Students in Singapore
A Review of “Foreign Talent”: Desire and Singapore’s China Scholars, by Peidong Yang. Peidong Yang’s exciting and timely dissertation on…
Economic Development & State-Making in Cold War Afghanistan
A review of Developing Powers: Modernization, Economic Development, and Governance in Cold War Afghanistan, by Timothy Nunan. When Hakim Taniwal…
Tibetan Buddhism in North America
A review of Revelations of a Modern Mystic: The Life and Legacy of Kun bzang bde chen gling pa 1928-2006,…
Red Tara: Female Deity & Tibetan Buddhism
A review of Red Tārā: Lineages of Literature and Practice, by Rachael Stevens. This thesis offers an insightful and much-needed…
Chinese Language Political Mobilization in Singapore
A review of Chinese Language Political Mobilization in Singapore, 1953-63, by Thum Pingtjin. The story of Singapore’s decolonization has been told…