Podcast Interview Round Up November-December: New Books in Anthropology
Hi there, it’s time for the latest round up of interviews from by New Books in Anthropology. Long and luxurious discussions with authors about…
Read MoreHi there, it’s time for the latest round up of interviews from by New Books in Anthropology. Long and luxurious discussions with authors about…
Read MoreThe first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter the Olympic stadium, coming…
Read MoreAs stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a…
Read MoreIt’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of the University of Milano-Bicocca….
Read MoreIntroduction (by Sarah Green) Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with…
Read More“You have already been incredibly faithful towards the man. And you have been following all the relevant rules for establishing a co-operative. Now, what…
Read MoreWhen we raise questions about the assumed figures of the ‘smuggler’ and ‘trafficker’, we must also in parallel raise questions about agencies, officers, policies,…
Read MoreToday we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a…
Read MoreAnthropologists have been studying the various phenomena associated with states and ‘state-like’ structures for a long time (cf. Fortes 1940, Leach 1954). It was…
Read MoreYou just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in…
Read MoreIn the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters” (Keene 2015). Keene’s need to…
Read MoreHow can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a…
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