Liminality, Biomedicine, and the Law – A symposium supported by the wellcome trust
Biomedicine and the life sciences continue to rearrange the relationship between culture and biology, problematizing what it means to be […]
Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite
#REVIEW: One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery, Part 2 of 2
This post marks the second part of our special review section on One Hour in Paris: A True Story of
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#Review: One Hour in Paris. A True Story of Rape and Recovery, Part 1 of 2
One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery is one part personal memoir, one part intellectual exploration
‘The Other Side’ – Attempted suicide, impossible love and (un)crossed boundaries
This time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke.
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
Eating Right in America, Part 3 of 3
This post marks the third part of our special review section on Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and
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Eating Right in America, Part 2 of 3
This post represents the second installment in our Special Review Section on Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and
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Eating Right in America, Part 1 of 3
Our special review section on Eating Right in America features posts from three fantastic reviewers working together to each emphasise
‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 1/2
Edward Fischer’s volume is an addition to the growing anthropological interest in people’s understanding of “well-being”, looked at through the