GENDER AND GENETICS: SOCIOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL
Within the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in…
Read MoreWithin the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in…
Read MoreFollowing up on Felix Girke’s review of Rogers Brubaker’s book #trans, this #reviews week is dedicated to more new publications that explore #gender at…
Read MoreAs Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot…
Read MorePolitics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it…
Read MoreIn early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She went to considerable length…
Read MoreNayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy. It…
Read MoreAfter a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots…
Read MoreAntonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
Read MoreThere is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for…
Read MoreMarshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational attributes and thus be…
Read More“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the bad job market. The…
Read MoreIn conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that derive from them. From…
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