Laura S. Grillo

I won an award in the 2019 Ethnographic Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing Competition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The honored work, “The Boiling Cauldron” is an excerpt from my MEMOIR. It is...

I was invited to submit a review essay of J. Lorand Matory’s new book, The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make (Duke UP, 2018) for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol 87, no 3 (2019) 911-915. J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited is a...