Leviathans at the Gold Mine reviewed by Catherine Coumans for PoLAR

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Leviathans at the Gold Mine was reviewed in the latest number of PoLAR — that’s the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, the journal of my subdiscipline of political anthropology. The review is by Catherine Coumans, an anthropologist at Mining Watch, so it reflects the concerns of the activist community.

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Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is a political anthropologist who studies kinship, customary land tenure, and the mining and petroleum industry in Papua New Guinea. He also studies the video game World of Warcraft, and is an advocate for open access scholarly communications. His book "Leviathans at the Gold Mine" was published by Duke University Press.