The Borderlands of Race
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in…
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Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in…
Read MoreI was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read something analytically powerful, critical…
Read MoreFashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is…
Read MoreMasculinities Under Neoliberalism (2016), edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne is the successor of the groundbreaking work ‘Dislocating Masculinity’ (1994)….
Read MoreWithin the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in…
Read MoreFollowing up on Felix Girke’s review of Rogers Brubaker’s book #trans, this #reviews week is dedicated to more new publications that explore #gender at…
Read MoreAs Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot…
Read MorePolitics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it…
Read MoreIn early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She went to considerable length…
Read MoreNayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy. It…
Read MoreAfter a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots…
Read MoreIt’s once again time for us to help your eardrums get some anthropological loving in collaboration with our dear friends, New Books in Anthropology….
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