Earlier this week the American Anthropological Association’s task force on Engagement with Israel-Palestine issued a 130-page report to assess whether […]
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press
People have been trickling into the top of Trafalgar Square since noon. By five darkness has launched its steady discolouration
What is the relationship between democracy, development, disappointment, and failure? Is it possible to learn something about ‘democracy proper’ from
In 1978, psychologist Jack Flasher defined the term ‘adultism’ as a way of perceiving children “not only as unconditionally subordinate
On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification,
