Call for reviews – Human Rights
To round off our week of excellent posts on all things related to the theme of human rights, we are […]
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The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s
Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of
Gruesome Spectacles. Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty
There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough
The Making of an African Working Class
An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it
The Edge of Islam
The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification
Handbook of Anthropology in Business
When a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course,
We Are Not Containers! On Experimental Objects, Past Struggles and Alternatives for Education
“Obviously, a school that makes active children sit at desks studying mostly useless subjects is a bad school. It is
Blogs & Science – and more: NEW Allegra week!
AAH, it’s a new week filled once again with tons of ‘Allegra Fun’! This week we set things off by
Stitched Up, part 2/2!
This is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The
Call for reviews – Refugees and Migration
This week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To