Book Reviews

Journal Name: Conflict and SocietyVolume: 5Issue: 1Pages: 202-215

‘The Traveller Way’

Although a population recognised externally for their itinerancy, the mobility of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland has been fundamentally misunderstood. Endowed with creative power, mobility exists for Gypsy Travellers not only in times of transit, but con…

The Leith Project

This essay reflects on the politics of abandoned buildings juxtaposed with memorials to a thriving industrial past whilst walking through Leith. I argue that these abandoned buildings reveal capitalism’s inherent obsolescence and counteract its teleolo…

The Leith Project

This essay reflects on the politics of abandoned buildings juxtaposed with memorials to a thriving industrial past whilst walking through Leith. I argue that these abandoned buildings reveal capitalism’s inherent obsolescence and counteract …

‘The Traveller Way’

Although a population recognised externally for their itinerancy, the mobility of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland has been fundamentally misunderstood. Endowed with creative power, mobility exists for Gypsy Travellers not only in times of trans…

Hacia un replanteamiento de la historia de la etnomusicología desde los estudios sobre el sonido: objetos y contextos en las grabaciones de campo durante las primeras décadas de investigación etnomusicológica

El artículo parte del interés existente en círculos etnomusicológicos por el nuevo campo interdisciplinar de los estudios sobre el sonido (del inglés sound studies) para apuntar algunas paradojas históricas que este acercamiento plantea. En concr…

Who Needs a Man When You Got a Gun?

What does gun ownership mean to armed women in a city in the Midwestern United States? Gun culture is an aspect of American life which has been neglected in anthropological literature. I examine how armed women I met and shot with told me how carrying …