THE TROUBLE WITH MARRIAGE: FEMINISTS CONFRONT LAW AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To […]
Book Review Reviews
TRANSRACHEL. UNSETTING ANALOGIES WITH ROGERS BRUBAKER
In early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She
PAPER TIGER: LAW, BUREAUCRACY AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE IN HIMALAYAN INDIA
Nayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of
Happy New Year from Allegra!
After a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #EASAexec
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a
Ethnographies of Academia
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon.
Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship
Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational
Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic
“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the
Unravelling Academic Precarity
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that
Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis
At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early