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Leadership, Crisis, and Political Change in the Nepeña Valley, Peru Paul R. Duffy11 minute read A review of Leadership, Crisis, and Political Change: The End of the Formative Period in the Nepeña Valley, Peru, by… 0 Shares 0 0
Money, Values and Change in Post-Socialist Romania Emanuela Grama10 minute read A review of Chary Opportunists: Money, Values, and Change in Postsocialist Romania, by Narcis Sorin Marius Tulbure. “Make the… 0 Shares 0 0
Politics, Land, and Religion in Colombia Rebecca Tally14 minute read A review of Negotiating Indigenous Autonomy: Politics, Land, and Religion in Tierradentro (Colombia) 1905-1950, by Alejandra Boza Villarreal. When one… 0 Shares 0 0
“Queuetopia”: Modernity and Standing in Lines in the Second World Susanna Weygandt5 minute read A review of Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, by Andrew H. Chapman. This dissertation traces the… 0 Shares 0 0
Imperial Portraiture in 18th- and 19th-c. Japan Doreen Mueller10 minute read A review of Political and Ritual Usages of Portraits of Japanese Emperors in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Yuki Morishima.… 0 Shares 0 0
Unwanted Pregnancy & Abortion in Bolivia 1952-2010 Molly Geidel7 minute read A review of An Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010, by Natalie… 0 Shares 0 0
William Harvey, Soul Searcher Peter Distelzweig7 minute read A review of William Harvey, Soul Searcher: Teleology and Philosophical Anatomy, by Benjamin I. Goldberg. In the preface to his… 0 Shares 0 0
Black Peasantry of Para, Brazil 1850-1950 Alex Borucki10 minute read A review of Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950, by Oscar de la Torre Cueva. Brazil… 0 Shares 0 0
Early Nomadic Polities on the Mongolian Steppe Xin Wen6 minute read A review of Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic Polities, by Jean-Luc… 0 Shares 0 0