Reviews Archives - Page 22 of 30

#Review: One Hour in Paris. A True Story of Rape and Recovery, Part 1 of 2

June, 2015 / By Tamar McKee

One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery is one part personal memoir, one part intellectual exploration […]

May, 2015 / By Simrat Kang

“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that

May, 2015 / By Daniel Münster

In The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s

May, 2015 / By Davide Torri

An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace

May, 2015 / By D. S. Farrer

Great dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers

Social scientists have repeatedly looked at the institution of marriage, and at the pivotal role it plays in many societies’

May, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

To celebrate the arrival of another tiny Allie, Allegra is launching a small but perfectly formed list of publications on

In recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to

Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of

May, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

Gone are the times when gender was a mostly female domain of enquiry. In our list of recent publications, two