A big, big congratulations to “Comparative Studies in Society and History”:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CSS, who have just turned fifty. CSSH is a great journal with a great run that has produced so many worthwhile pieces. Their “latest, anniversary issue”:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=CSS&volumeId=50&issueId=01 is no exception and, best of all, access seems to be free for now. The stand-out article for me is Simon Harrison’s “Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military: Keeping the Enemy Dead in British Frontier Warfare”. Harrison’s book “Fractured Resemblances”:http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HarrisonFracturing is a favorite of mine and I’m teaching it in my Political Anthropology class this semseter. After having done headhunting amongst the colonized his new project on skull-taking amongst the colonized sounds very interesting.

So again — congratulations to all the people out at CSSH!