Me, Not You
In Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged […]
Being a Parent in the Field
In 2017, my colleague Philipp Zehmisch and I had to cancel a panel on love and family relationships in ethnographic
Terraformed
Terraformed by Joy White aims at making sense and contextualising the vulnerability and inequality experienced by the Afrodiasporic population of
Whose Life Is Worth More?
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code
The Kiss of Death
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that
Suicidal
In “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed
Just Transitions
November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or
Animal Intimacies
The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an
Call for reviews: Anthropology of Death and Mourning
The global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow
Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South