The Land-Grab Trap. Is there a Will to Govern Global Land-Grabbing? #AIGNetwork
How to govern the “global land rush” was at issue in the final negotiations on Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems at…
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Interview with Birgit Müller #AIGNetwork
Birgit Müller is a senior researcher at Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She is based in Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Institutions and des…
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Islam and Public Controversy in Europe #anthroislam
Nilüfer Göle, ed. Islam and Public Controversy in Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 262 pages. ISBN: 978-1-472-41313-0 Nowadays Islam plays a pivotal role in the social reality…
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The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam by Armando Salvatore #anthroislam
Of Allegra’s excellent list of recent publications pertaining to Islam, The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam is perhaps the least anthropological. Nevertheless, I…
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Islam and New Kinship by Morgan Clarke #anthroislam
Islam and New Kinship: A Nascent Horizon for the Relationship Between Science, Reproductive Technology, and Fiqh, by Morgan Clarke. ISBN 978-0-85745-140-8 $34.95/£22.50 Pb Published…
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Lila Abu-Lughod on Colonial Feminism and Muslim Women #ANTHROISLAM
After the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her new book ‘Do Muslim…
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Allie’s reading week: #AnthroIslam
We promised we would do it, and now it is done ! Here are the first glimpses into some of the books we advertised in…
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Hail to the Pioneer – Interview with Alex Golub from Savage Minds
Dear Savage Mind, We are approaching you in the singular, for if our understanding is correct, it was just one ‘savage mind’ that got…
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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes, An Anthropology of Everyday Religion – Edited by Samuli Schielke & Liza Debevec
The reviewed volume tackles the question of “how to account for the complex duality of religion as an everyday practice and a normative doctrine.”…
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Mental Welfare in The Field: A neglected subject?
By Marcus Jordan The time is 7 in the morning, and it is yet another long day of my fieldwork. Now all I need…
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Time for October #Events!
How did the summer go by so fast?! October’s almost here, and Allegra is once again offering you a sample of upcoming #events in anthropology,…
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Mass-produced Desire and the Doughnut Machine
We conclude our thematic week on #BODY with an AVMoFA entry by Paul Mullins & mass-produced desire via the Doughnut Machine. How exactly were…
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