Compromised Bodies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General A story of hope and

A story of hope and peace

well-informed participants in their own healthcare

In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community within the Jewish world in these troubled times

and hesitant bystanders waver between indifference and intervention—with harrowing results

Compromised Bodies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General A story of hope andThis ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegals 1999 national ban on female genital mutilation The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on Female Genital Mutilation in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital cutting (FGC) at the time, policy makers did not expect that the new law would cause controversy or provoke commotion. Yet, in Fouta Toro and among Fulani, who