Gruesome Spectacles. Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty
There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough […]
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
The Edge of Islam
The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification
Handbook of Anthropology in Business
When a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course,
Flip-Flop, A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads
Caroline Knowles’ Flip Flop presents a novel option for a long-demanded alternative approach to globalisation research. In the tradition of
‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 2/2
This is the second part in our Special Review section of Edward Fischer‘s book The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and
Stitched Up, part 2/2!
This is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The
‘All the world’s a stage?’ A review of Bruno Latour’s Gaïa Global Circus
Theatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the
‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 1/2
Edward Fischer’s volume is an addition to the growing anthropological interest in people’s understanding of “well-being”, looked at through the
Call for reviews – Refugees and Migration
This week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To