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Kurdish Voices in Diaspora: An Overview on Kurdish Diasporic Literature

The lack of a sovereign entity undoubtedly distinguishes the Kurdish diaspora from other state-bound diasporas, and Kurds are certainly to be included in the…

Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen

Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674599222. 304 pages. A review by D.T. Cochrane …

The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam by Armando Salvatore #anthroislam

Of Allegra’s excellent list of recent publications pertaining to Islam, The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam is perhaps the least anthropological. Nevertheless, I…

Lila Abu-Lughod on Colonial Feminism and Muslim Women #ANTHROISLAM

After the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her new book ‘Do Muslim…

Allie’s reading week: #AnthroIslam

We promised we would do it, and now it is done ! Here are the first glimpses into some of the books we advertised in…

Hail to the Pioneer – Interview with Alex Golub from Savage Minds

Dear Savage Mind, We are approaching you in the singular, for if our understanding is correct, it was just one ‘savage mind’ that got…

Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes, An Anthropology of Everyday Religion – Edited by Samuli Schielke & Liza Debevec

The reviewed volume tackles the question of “how to account for the complex duality of religion as an everyday practice and a normative doctrine.”…

Recycling Faces and Identities?

When writing this piece I was asked to think in terms of recycling rather than producing something new, the usual obligation of academics writing…

#BODY, #FOOD & Then Some!

After a few weeks of upmost seriousness – namely our thematic weeks on Sustainable Development, Afghan Elections and University Crisis – this week we take…

(UN)GOVERNED SPACES – An exhibition by Gregory Thielker and Noah Coburn

October 28 – December 2, 2014 Opening October 28, 2014 Usdan Gallery at Bennington College One College Drive, Bennington, Vermont gregorythielker.tumblr.com