Spring Is Calling
Spring has almost arrived and with it comes a series of exciting events on the anthropological calendar. We did not […]
Reviews Symposium
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World, Part 1 of 3
This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Ethical Eating. Our three reviewers shared the work
Call Reviews
Call for reviews – Human Rights
To round off our week of excellent posts on all things related to the theme of human rights, we are
The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s
Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of
Charlesworth and Larking discuss their new book on the UN Universal Periodic Review
Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She is also an
Gruesome Spectacles. Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty
There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough
History of human rights Note One-Shots
What rights for migrants? What the European Court of Human Rights says and does not say
This is all over the newspapers: MPs have found that the United Kingdom detains ‘far too many [migrants] unnecessarily and for
QUIZ: Do you feel Gaulois?
Recently it was brought to our attention that the French government was in need of the kind of help that
The Making of an African Working Class
An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it
The Edge of Islam
The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification