China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years. But pressing questions over how understandings of gender – and …
Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has settled into accepting that …
John Witte, Jr.‘s The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an extensively researched book showcasing the author’s …
In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World(Scribner Books, 2018), Dr. Michele Gelfand leverages cultural psychology research …
Almost a decade in the making, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland(Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws on …
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O’Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it …
If you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: …
Sometimes a book can take inspiration from a (not so) simple map. At the end of his previous book, Queer French: Globalization, …
Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World(University of California Press, 2018) by Patrick Eisenlohr is an exciting …
In this episode, cross-posted from from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Yael Schonbrun takes a dive into evolutionary psychology with …
In eastern Tajikistan, the Trans-Pamir Highway flows through the mountains creating a lunar-like landscape. In his latest work, Azan on the Moon: …
Harkening back to the tribunal on Vietnam once convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged …
How does cultural taste regulate our lives? In Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth …
In what is sure to become a classic, Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press, …
49.91% of India’s population was below the age of 24 in the 2011 Census. By 2020 India will become the world’s youngest …
What makes a Buddhist monk? This is the motivating question for Thomas Borchert, Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, as …
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. …
“There are Mexicans in Alaska?” This was the response Sara Komarnisky heard repeatedly when describing her research on three generations of transnational …
I don’t mean to make a scene, but please open your eyes and look around. There are complex scenes everywhere and we …
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that …
Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s 2018 Albert Hourani Book Award, Alireza Doostdar’s The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and …
What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In …
Is microfinance the magic bullet that will end global poverty or is it yet another a form of predatory lending to the …
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories …