The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a group of…
Read MoreStates resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a group of…
Read MoreToday we re-post our conversation with Judith Beyer from a joint virtual roundtable with Anthropoliteia. In her commentary, Judith answers the question: “What has…
Read MoreBiomedicine and the life sciences continue to rearrange the relationship between culture and biology, problematizing what it means to be a person, and introducing…
Read MoreOn April 2nd 2015, the bloody attack on Garissa University College captured and dominated news headlines worldwide. The attack was claimed by Al-Shabaab, a…
Read MoreThis post marks the second part of our special review section on One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery. Check…
Read MoreOne Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery is one part personal memoir, one part intellectual exploration into one woman’s highly…
Read MoreAnthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture is made and diffused…
Read MoreKimberly Theidon illuminates both the horrific and beautiful complexities of post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice as it unfolds on the ground via her ethnography,…
Read MoreWhen I was 18 I went to study economics. But I didn’t last long, mainly because I didn’t find what we were doing there…
Read MoreThere is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough detail to situate them…
Read MoreWe are immersed in cyber worlds. Such a dominant, human-made feature of contemporaneity plays a fundamental role not simply in shaping our perception of…
Read MoreWe have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations of law affect access…
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