THE TROUBLE WITH MARRIAGE: FEMINISTS CONFRONT LAW AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it…
Read MorePolitics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it…
Read MoreIn early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She went to considerable length…
Read MoreNayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy. It…
Read MoreAfter a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots…
Read MoreWhen I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are ever going…
Read MoreI take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about….
Read MoreAntonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
Read MoreI am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They…
Read MoreAbout a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White Paper on implementing ambitious…
Read MoreIt’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night he has to go…
Read MoreI have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
Read MoreThere is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for…
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