Designs and Anthropologies provides an essential field guide to the twin terms of its title, along with the now fevered zone of exchange between them. Richly varied and always insightful, its chapters combine into a plural account of aspiration and critique, with an occasional dash of disagreement to keep things lively. Or as the Post-it Note would read: must read!--Peter Redfield, author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders