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Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World, Part 1 of 3

March, 2015 / By Fiona Murphy

This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Ethical Eating. Our three reviewers shared the work […]

March, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

To round off our week of excellent posts on all things related to the theme of human rights, we are

March, 2015 / By Olivier Barsalou

Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of

March, 2015 / By David Fazzino

There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough

March, 2015 / By Daniel Souleles

An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it

March, 2015 / By Sandra Staudacher

The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification

March, 2015 / By Gareth Hamilton

When a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course,

March, 2015 / By Antu Sorainen

“Obviously, a school that makes active children sit at desks studying mostly useless subjects is a bad school. It is

March, 2015 / By Alik Mazukatow

AAH, it’s a new week filled once again with tons of ‘Allegra Fun’! This week we set things off by

March, 2015 / By Jessika Nilsson

This is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The