#Review: Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and […]
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and […]
The Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil is an ambitious effort to rethink
During my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone
Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with
There has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies.
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent
Seth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician
21st century politics are marked by a focus on ‘life’ (cf. Fassin 2007). Governments, international organisations, and private companies, for
Anthropologists have been studying the various phenomena associated with states and ‘state-like’ structures for a long time (cf. Fortes 1940,
I am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris: