For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Anthropology

September 1987 Issue

David Profumo

A Very Important Subject

Male Fantasies

By Klaus Theweleit (translated by Stephen Conway)

June 1990 Issue

Jad Adams

Time Out Of Mind

Empires of Time – Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

By Anthony Aveni

June 2016 Issue

Anna Reid

Borderlands

Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan

By Iwona Kaliszewska & Maciej Falkowski (Translated by Arthur Barys)

October 1985 Issue

Craig Raine

Immortality For Who?

The Human Province

By Elias Canetti (Translated by Joachim Neugroschel)

March 1998 Issue

Carlos Mavroleon

Beware of Lettuce

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Sustances

By Richard Rudgley

April 2003 Issue

Charlie Campbell

Droit Du Seigneur

The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide

By Richard Conniff

July 2003 Issue

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Crops and Cavemen

After The Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5,000 BC

By Steven Mithen

December 2003 Issue

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Fighting For Survival

Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians In the Twentieth Century

By John Hemming

March 2004 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

In Search of NomadsL An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession From Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

By John Ure

Ronald Mutebi

A Kingdom of Their Own

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

June 2004 Issue

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The Bushman’s Song

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct Peopl

By Neil Bennun

April 2012 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Reality Entertainment

Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Sadiah Qureshi

June 2013 Issue

Peter Marshall

Leaps of Faith

Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept

By Brent Nongbri

December 2013 Issue

Sara Wheeler

In the Duke We Trust

Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers

By Matthew Baylis

April 2013 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Among the Daiperologists

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

By Peter Mandler