Clarion Review (Four out of five stars) "A breathless, awe-inspiring read of epic proportions. If only Spielberg, Lucas, or Michael Bay would film it, Kenneth McGill's introduction would make a stunner of an opening sequence for a summer blockbuster..... McGill blends together engaging themes of exploration, survival, intrigue, and humanity in a solid story with crisp characters and an absorbing plot.... The prologue depicts the final battle of a dying empire at war for twenty-nine generations. The empire's defeat sets the stage for the novel that follows, as the story jumps ahead many...

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well.

Brief, accessibly written, and peppered...