The intimate life of dissent
Book review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life of Dissent examines practices…
Read MoreBook review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life of Dissent examines practices…
Read MoreDurand, P. (2020). The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death. University of Chicago Press. All bolded terms are defined at the bottom of this…
Read MoreEthnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into…
Read MoreDying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across…
Read MoreIn Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged white women using mainstream…
Read MoreIn 2017, my colleague Philipp Zehmisch and I had to cancel a panel on love and family relationships in ethnographic fieldwork, due to a…
Read MoreTerraformed by Joy White aims at making sense and contextualising the vulnerability and inequality experienced by the Afrodiasporic population of the UK. The author…
Read MoreDuring the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) and thus…
Read MoreAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or…
Read MoreIn “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed fatal act. According to…
Read MoreNovember 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the…
Read MoreThe creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an important addition to the…
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