Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages…
Read MoreHow does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages…
Read MoreSarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes a good cup of…
Read MoreAs I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British…
Read MoreThe cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B. Joe titled Bleeding Sky,…
Read MoreIn her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development project of the coal…
Read MoreIn Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises…
Read MoreWhere do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…
Read MoreThe NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It…
Read MoreAndersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre…
Read MoreAs neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few…
Read MoreWhich books did you, our dear readers, consider as really essential reading in anthropology? Here’s the list of books that you suggested – all 70…
Read MoreBack in in 2015 Allegra published “The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology” – a list curated via a small-scale survey among junior and senior…
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