The Making of an African Working Class
An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it is not a straightforward…
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An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it is not a straightforward…
Read MoreThe Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification with Islam. Focusing on…
Read MoreWhen a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course, to the book’s size….
Read MoreCaroline Knowles’ Flip Flop presents a novel option for a long-demanded alternative approach to globalisation research. In the tradition of Appadurai’s (1992) Social Life…
Read MoreThis is the second part in our Special Review section of Edward Fischer‘s book The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing….
Read MoreThis is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion….
Read MoreTheatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the first instrumentalises theatre, and…
Read MoreEdward Fischer’s volume is an addition to the growing anthropological interest in people’s understanding of “well-being”, looked at through the prism of “how people…
Read MoreThis week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To continue their work, we…
Read MoreTansy E. Hoskins. 2014. Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Pluto Press. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780745334561. Tansy E. Hoskins’ Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist…
Read MoreRachel E. Black 2012. Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 This is…
Read MoreRachel E. Black. Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 The book under review,…
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