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This review on Food and Identity in the Caribbean is the first in a line of reviews from our „food“-list, curated by our review…
Read MoreThis review on Food and Identity in the Caribbean is the first in a line of reviews from our „food“-list, curated by our review…
Read MoreCan Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State. By John B. Bowen, 2010, Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691152493 The…
Read MoreExpulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674599222. 304 pages. A review by D.T. Cochrane …
Read MoreNilüfer 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…
Read MoreOf Allegra’s excellent list of recent publications pertaining to Islam, The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam is perhaps the least anthropological. Nevertheless, I…
Read MoreIslam 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…
Read MoreThe reviewed volume tackles the question of “how to account for the complex duality of religion as an everyday practice and a normative doctrine.”…
Read MoreBook Review of Robert D. Kaplan’s “Monsoon. The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power“ Monsoon provides a very detailed analysis of the…
Read MoreWritten in the aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays by anthropologist Laura Nader is an…
Read MoreIn her newest book review for Allegra Lab, Fiona Murphy follows the traces that anthropologist Susan Slyomovics draws between Holocaust reparations and possible reparations…
Read MoreIntroduction and Photographs by Judith Beyer, Book Review by Nina Johnen On an office desk in Yangon (Rangoon), the former capital of Myanmar…
Read MoreIntroduction by Allegra’s Reviews Editor, Judith Beyer. Two weeks ago, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled Tobacco’s Hidden Children, in which it…
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