Special Edition: Excellence in Anthropology Dissertations: The David Brooks Memorial Prize 2009-2011 Winners

Contents

General editor’s note

Claudia Merli, Durham University

Postgraduate Conference 2011: Poster and Presentations

Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal, Durham University

Through the looking glass: The spatial performance of body image

Sian Browett, Durham University

The development of difference: Social change around the Ok Tedi Copper and Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea

Paul Gilbert, Durham University

Carving culture: Creating identity through female genital cutting

Rahma Abdi, Durham University

Birthright: A journey of Jewish identity

Ben Kasstan, Durham University

BOOK REVIEWS

Benson, P. 2012. Tobacco capitalism: Growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Reviewed by Andrew Russell, Durham University                    

Kalland, Arne. 2009. Unveiling the whale: Discourses on whales and whaling. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Reviewed by Jessica Pountney, Durham University

Willis, Michael. 2009. The archaeology of Hindu ritual: Temples and establishment of the Gods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reviewed by Vittorio Magnano, Durham University

Alexandra Ouroussoff, 2010. Wall Street at War: The secret struggle for the global economy. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Reviewed by Michele Fontefrancesco, Durham University

Volume 18 - 2012  Number 1 (Special Edition)