Words of Passage
Hilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on fieldwork conducted between 1997…
Read MoreHilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on fieldwork conducted between 1997…
Read MoreIn the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as under attack, desperately in…
Read MoreHow does work confer dignity and a sense of belonging? Is work the central identity-conferring activity of society? What if society were structured around…
Read More“Tuesday 8:30 – Good morning circle 9:00 – I’m raising the children you have forgotten. 10:15 – And you have no goddamned clue….
Read MoreUnless they are disrupted, deportations tend to go unnoticed. It is usually only the shocking deaths of deportees, or direct action of activists that…
Read MoreA close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how to become a hero.”…
Read MoreIn her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in a style comparable to…
Read MoreDonald Donham’s The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example is not a traditional ethnography. The author first became aware of a provocative erotic…
Read MoreGiulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in the cultural and creative…
Read MoreIn State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency to study the margins…
Read MoreThis seamless compilation of essays has the feel of a life’s work. Through the lens of his scholarship on the Yoruba, Andrew Apter tackles…
Read MoreOutside observers have often interpreted Chad’s long history with rebellion as reflective of internal chaos and questionable moralities. Marielle Debos nuances these superficial understandings…
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