What Kinship Is – And Is Not
To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides […]
To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides […]
Dan Berger’s relationship with “America’s political prisoners” (xii) has been personal from the very beginning. At age sixteen and out
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and
The Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil is an ambitious effort to rethink
During my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone
Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with
There has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies.
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent
Seth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician
21st century politics are marked by a focus on ‘life’ (cf. Fassin 2007). Governments, international organisations, and private companies, for