#REVIEW: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
In his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance […]
#REVIEW: One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery, Part 2 of 2
This post marks the second part of our special review section on One Hour in Paris: A True Story of
Brazilian Food. Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines
“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that
The Darjeeling Distinction. Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India.
In The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s
New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era.
An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace
The Anthropology of Islam Reader
Great dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers
Wives, Husbands and Lovers. Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Urban China
Social scientists have repeatedly looked at the institution of marriage, and at the pivotal role it plays in many societies’
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity. Life off the Edge of the Table
In recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to
The Language of Food. A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
Anthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture