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 his answer to this…
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To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides his answer to this…
Read MoreDan Berger’s relationship with “America’s political prisoners” (xii) has been personal from the very beginning. At age sixteen and out of historical curiosity, Berger…
Read MoreThe second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and a rewrite of their…
Read MoreThe Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil is an ambitious effort to rethink the formation of a…
Read MoreDuring my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone reads all the time,…
Read MoreHumanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with transformative moral-political modes of…
Read MoreThere has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies. The debate is over…
Read MoreChild Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media stories about…
Read MoreSeth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician anthropologist, the author tries…
Read More21st century politics are marked by a focus on ‘life’ (cf. Fassin 2007). Governments, international organisations, and private companies, for instance, are showing their…
Read MoreAnthropologists have been studying the various phenomena associated with states and ‘state-like’ structures for a long time (cf. Fortes 1940, Leach 1954). It was…
Read MoreWe had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet to Blog Post to…
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