SPECIAL COLLECTION:

Pirates and Piracy, Broadly Conceived

Introduced and Edited by Alexander Sebastian Dent

 

COMING IN AUGUST Vol. #85, #3, Summer 2012
Alexander Sebastian Dent | Introduction: Understanding the War on Piracy, Or Why We Need More Anthropology of Pirates Shannon Lee Dawdy & Joe Bonni | Towards a General Theory of Piracy Constantine V. Nakassis | Counterfeiting What? Aesthetics of Brandedness and BRAND in Tamil Nadu, India Ryan Thomas Skinner | Artists, Music Piracy, and the Crisis of Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Mali Anne M. Galvin | Caribbean Piracies/Social Mobilities: Some Commonalities Between Colonial Privateers and Entrepreneurial “Profiteers” in the 21st Century Kedron Thomas | Intellectual Property Law and the Ethics of Imitation in Guatemala Jennifer L. Gaynor | Piracy in the Offing: The Law of Lands and The Limits of Sovereignty at Sea Adrian Johns | Gutenberg and the Samurai Or, The Information Revolution is History Plus: SOCIAL THOUGHT & COMMENTARY on FACEBOOK Alex Fattal | Social Buzz, Political Boom? Ethnographic Engagements with Digital Militancy Rebecca L. Stein | StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State Charles Hirschkind | Interview with Alaa Abd al-Fattah, Tahrir Square, 12 pm, July 19th Alex Fattal | Corporate Hackers and a Billion Users: Moving the Headquarters and Growing Abroad; Parsing the Contradictions of Facebook’s Expansion NEW RELEASE BOOK REVIEWS Elisha P. Rene | Duana Fullwiley's The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Yulia Egorova | Nadia Abu El-Haj's The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology BOOK REVIEWS Jon Bialecki | Omri Elisha’s Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches Sverker Finnström | David H. Price’s Weaponizing Anthropology John M. Ingham | James D. Faubion’s An Anthropology of Ethics Winifred R. Poster | Reena Patel’s Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry Philip W. Scher | Peter E. Siegel and Elizabeth Righter’s (eds.) Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean