Autocracy and Historical Accidents: On Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land”
Ed Pulford considers Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land.”
Ed Pulford is an anthropologist and lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on China–Russia relations and the past and present of socialism, and his first book, Mirrorlands, is an anthropological and historical account of life in the borderlands between China and Russia.
Ed Pulford considers Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land.”