Emergent Conversation: Being Like a State #anthrostate
Today we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We are very…
Read MoreToday we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We are very…
Read More“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that sets the outermost terms…
Read MoreWhat does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining the desired degree of…
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 MoreAs a graduate student at the University of Michigan, I had to write what was called a “preliminary paper.” This paper had to be…
Read MoreGone are the times when gender was a mostly female domain of enquiry. In our list of recent publications, two publications exemplify novel ways…
Read MoreAlive to the power of performance, Indigenous artists and communities communicate alternative ways of living on earth. Not better, nor worse, just different. Indigeneity…
Read MoreThe Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification with Islam. Focusing on…
Read MoreThis review on Food and Identity in the Caribbean is the first in a line of reviews from our „food“-list, curated by our review…
Read MoreDuring the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in 1955 on the outskirts…
Read MoreStories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first in Egypt in 2002,…
Read MoreAfter the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her new book ‘Do Muslim…
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