Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
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Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
Read MoreIn contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
Read MoreThis book comes to life as a product of fifteen years of research in and about the festive culture of Mulids, Muslim festivals held…
Read MoreLila Abu-Lughod’s book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, expands on her thoughts from an earlier article similarly titled. As she explains, this book is “a…
Read MoreThis post represents the final part of our special review section on Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. Check out the first…
Read MoreThis post marks the first installment of our special review section on Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. Deborah James’ Money From…
Read MoreAnger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to…
Read MoreAnonymous peer review has the power to transform. It can turn trust into suspicion; it can be uplifting or leave you without a leg…
Read MoreI welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country…
Read MoreLong-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of…
Read MoreThe last two weeks here at Allegra have been dedicated to all things #Anthrostate. To continue the theme, we have handpicked some of our favourite…
Read MoreIn his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical…
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