Review: Rice and Baguette
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University In her Introduction,&nb…
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University In her Introduction,&nb…
https://utorontopress.com/9781487554279/untold-stories/?srsltid=AfmBOoq615DQfP5E2-AcCtkGe0xFZKGL5LbK2Oe7WywXSdqOaxZZsAeD Cécile Evers: In the beginning of Untold Stories, you recount an anecdo…
A poet calls readers to act in the face of interconnected violence, exploitation, and privilege. “Heaven on Earth” and “Jesus Is Palestinian” are part of the collection Poets…
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian…
Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement (Routledge, 2025) by Professor Erica Borgstrom & Dr. Renske Visser is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death,…
From Marx’s London Notebook no b63 Heft LXIV – the last four pages on Francois Bernier on India. As Engels several times says, the handwriting is impossible. ARCH00860.B_63…
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On Thursday, October 24th, SAR’s Advancement Team convened the first of a series of focus groups on the future…
All photos in this post are courtesy of Aamer Ibraheem. In a region marked by divi…
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be like poetry. These are the prompts…
SAR Moments: Raising a Glass, The Enduring Legacy of Fermented Beverages AI Summary …
As three anthropologists working at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand), we experience anthropology in our daily work in the context of our local histories,…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
An archaeologist from Palestine is urgently working to assess archaeological sites in the West Bank devastated by destruction and looting amid Israel’s ongoing war in the region. ✽…
How do we become moral persons? What about children’s active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by…
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they’re gone? Rich in mystery and life’s lessons, God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End (Rutgers…
Since this weblog will be 20 years old in August, some of it will be selectively recycled into pulp, even as much of it was already pulp at…
Dow chimicals… grrrr. but there is a backstory to this despicable substance, I cannot yet see a full version of Pantelis Vougaris’ film With Heart and Soul (- yet,…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertent…