Everyday Ethics of Organ Transplant Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt. By Sherine Hamdy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Reinforcing Power through Violence and Ritual Ecology Sacrifice, Violence, and Ideology among the Moche: The Rise of Social Complexity in Ancient Peru. By Steve Bourget. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016.
Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor. Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 352 pp.; 41 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $35.
Book ReviewsRyan K. Smith. Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti‐Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 224 pp.; 23 illustrations, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Bringing People Back In: The Case of the Anthropology of Finance Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. By Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.