Border Work by Madeleine Reeves
In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
Read MoreIn contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
Read MoreThis book comes to life as a product of fifteen years of research in and about the festive culture of Mulids, Muslim festivals held…
Read MoreLila Abu-Lughod’s book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, expands on her thoughts from an earlier article similarly titled. As she explains, this book is “a…
Read MoreAnger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to…
Read MoreI welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country…
Read MoreLong-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of…
Read MoreIn his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical…
Read MoreThis post marks the second part of our special review section on One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery. Check…
Read More“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that sets the outermost terms…
Read MoreIn The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. Besky critically…
Read MoreAn important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace with the most recent…
Read MoreGreat dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers selected for this volume…
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