#REVIEW: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
In his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical…
Read MoreIn his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical…
Read MoreThis post marks the second part of our special review section on One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery. Check…
Read MoreOne Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery is one part personal memoir, one part intellectual exploration into one woman’s highly…
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Read MoreIn The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. Besky critically…
Read MoreAn important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace with the most recent…
Read More“…Here being my Italy – Where memories spring like geysers, Crying at me where I place my feet; Italy which receives me with benignity…
Read MoreGreat dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers selected for this volume…
Read MoreSocial scientists have repeatedly looked at the institution of marriage, and at the pivotal role it plays in many societies’ production and reproduction. In…
Read MoreTo celebrate the arrival of another tiny Allie, Allegra is launching a small but perfectly formed list of publications on #children, this time with…
Read MoreIn recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to receiving at least somber…
Read MoreDan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of Food – a collection…
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