New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era.
An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace […]
A hundred years apart: An intimate history of Italian migration to the US
“…Here being my Italy – Where memories spring like geysers, Crying at me where I place my feet; Italy which
The Anthropology of Islam Reader
Great dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers
Wives, Husbands and Lovers. Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Urban China
Social scientists have repeatedly looked at the institution of marriage, and at the pivotal role it plays in many societies’
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Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on Children
To celebrate the arrival of another tiny Allie, Allegra is launching a small but perfectly formed list of publications on
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity. Life off the Edge of the Table
In recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to
The Language of Food. A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of
The Archaeological Study of Children
As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, I had to write what was called a “preliminary paper.” This
Recent Publications on #GENDER
Gone are the times when gender was a mostly female domain of enquiry. In our list of recent publications, two
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
Anthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture