The anthropologist Lukas Ley, who heads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Anthropological Research in Halle, has reviewed our illustrated book Delta Worlds: Life between Land and Water in the British  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Among other things, he writes:

"While the relatively large print format and thoughtful graphic design of Delta worlds invite cursory leafing […], it adds crucial commentary. […] Distancing itself from cartographic representations and other sweeping accounts of deltas, which tend to screen out inhabitants’ viewpoints, the book underlines the importance of research conducted at human scale. […] Despite their extreme brevity compared to conventional ethnographic storytelling, these vignettes carefully tease out the contours of everyday life.

This humanizing storytelling also brings out the numerous ‘external’ factors – ranging from colonial intrusions to land grabs and commodity markets – that delta inhabitants deal with. The book is perhaps at its strongest when it leaves the stage to nonhuman others – infrastructures and technologies with regional to global reach – in a decentring move."

You can read the whole review here.