| Bret Gustafson is working on the relationship between natural gas economies and civil-territorial conflict in Latin America (Bolivia). A chapter titled, "Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Natural Gas and Territorial Politics in Bolivia" is forthcoming in The Anthropology of Oil. | Derek Pardue edited "Ruminations on Violence," an interdisciplinary volume of essays, poems, and art work related to conditions and aesthetics of violence from a global perspective. | Robert Canfield has recently written about the recent politicization of Hazara identity in Afghanistan; on a marital dispute among the Hazaras in the 1930s when government control was weak; on a dispute among Hazaras over bushes that turned out to be more than it seemed; and on the several groups and their diverse agendas that formed the Taliban. | John Bowen’s piece on The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict has been widely reprinted; he writes on issues of integration and difference in Europe and Indonesia. | Glenn Stone maintains an interest in the nexus of land conflict, agricultural intensification, and population density. He has written about this in modern Nigeria and the prehistoric U.S. southwest. | Peter Benson has studied ethnographic dimensions of social suffering and violence in postwar Guatemala (see recent article in.Anthropological Quarterly). |