Reviews week, a new call – and a thank you note!
This week we feature new reviews as well as a new call for reviews on the theme of #legalanthro! Tomorrow, […]
70 (or so) Essential Books in Anthropology – Allegra’s Readers’ Choices
Which books did you, our dear readers, consider as really essential reading in anthropology? Here’s the list of books that you
TOP 30 Revisited – Readers’ Choices
Back in in 2015 Allegra published “The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology” – a list curated via a small-scale survey
Humanitarian Carnival – Julie Billaud Discusses her Book with Heath Cabot
Julie Billaud‘s first monograph, entitled « Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan», came out in 2015 with the University
The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology
At the end of 2015 Allegra launched a virtual survey among junior and senior anthropologists in order to select the
The Borderlands of Race
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it
MORAL WAGES: THE EMOTIONAL DILEMMAS OF VICTIMS ADVOCACY AND COUNSELING
I was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read
SEX AND UNISEX: FASHION, FEMINISM, AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Fashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in
MASCULINITIES UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (2016), edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne is the successor of the groundbreaking
GENDER AND GENETICS: SOCIOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL
Within the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining