Author: ltwstu

Lecturer of Anthropology
University of Michigan

Associate Managing Editor
Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volume 67, #2//April 2025

Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Prose of Counterinsurgency; Theopolitical Lives; Taste, Place, and Power; Submergent Histories.

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Legal Cultures

"An Old Man and His Young Wife Before Religious Arbitrators," Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di, Painting attributed to Daula,Indian, 1610–15

A syllabus of CSSH scholarship on law and legal institutions.

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March 2025

CSSH recognizes a new book coedited by Alyssa Paredes!

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Decay as Care: Companioning Things through Death

Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg. A photograph of the original watercolor painting. Public Domain.

Marisa Karyl Franz shares how she became attuned to decay, rot, and ruin, subjects of her recent CSSH essay.

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Love letters from CSSH

The Love Letter by Eugene von Blaas, 1913

A Valentine’s Day sampler: CSSH scholarship on love, romance, dating, and marriage.

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Volume 67, Issue 1

Meet the authors of the 67-1 issue, January 2025.

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Volume 67, #1//January 2025

Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Questioning Dualism; Spatial Projects; Nation “Building”; and Anticipatory Expertise.

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