Month: January 2013

Authors: Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch Publisher: University Press of Colorado Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Most of you college graduates out there took an anthropology course in college but did you ever come across the term ‘post-human anthropology’? In short, anthropology is the study of man (look for a detailed definition below). This book is about the present and the future nature of humans, something I would describe in our current evolutionary stage as ‘cyber beings’. A good example of a cyber being I suppose would be someone who starts a Facebook account, gets a lot of...

Author: Fatema el-Tayeb Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book has an unusual title and one that is not easy to comprehend. Who are “European others”? Did the author mean to say “other Europeans”? Another word from the book’s subtitle – “queering” – is not to be found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, or in any known or recognized dictionary. Most of us know that a “queer” is derogatory term for a gay man or a homosexual. But the word queering, used as a verb I suppose, was not to be found anywhere in a...

Author: James R. Shortridge Publisher: University Press of Kansas Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Kansas City, founded in 1838, has an area of 319 square miles (including water)  with about 463,000 people (2011 U.S. Census Bureau estimate), the 37th most populous city in the United States. Located at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, it is the largest city in the state of Missouri, and 23rd largest in land area among U.S. cities. The city is well known for its music styles of jazz and blues, as well as its tasty barbecues. It is noteworthy to know...