Book Review Essay: More Terrible Than Death
Human Rights Watch researcher Robin Kirk says her intention in More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in ...
Book Review Essay: Systems of Violence by Nazih Richani
Nazih Richani’s book Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia is a convincing and important ...
Book Review Essay: Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
“Why are you importing a U.S. problem into our society? We are not black, or white, or Indian. We are ...
Book Review Essay: Critical Passions: Selected Essays By Jean Franco Edited by Mary Louise Pratt an...
Cultural criticism is an ambiguous and heterogeneous practice, defiant of disciplinary location and elusive of precise definition. As such, perhaps ...
Book Review Essay: Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala
It is fitting that Linda Green's book on Mayan widows comes out at the end of the century. This tour ...
Book Review Essay: The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities
"The border," comment the editors in their introduction to The U.S.-Mexico Border, "now represents a global crossroads in which the ...
Book Review Essay: Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995
The Communist Party of Peru, otherwise known as Shining Path, launched its "popular revolutionary war" in 1980, giving rise to ...
Book Review Essay: The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy
How inexorably antidemocratic is the Guatemalan army? This is the question anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer asks in her new book, summarizing ...
