Southern Provisions
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Did you ever wonder where Carolina…
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Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity
Review of: Warner, Mark S. 2015. Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Ashanté Reese Spelman College Mark S. Warner’s…
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is Another Way for Africa’ — Book Review by Thomas Perring
During the spring term I taught African Studies at Uppsala University. Students created a blog Uppsala African Reviews where they published reviews of books with a focus on…
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy, a book review by Elin Carlsson
During the spring term I taught African Studies at Uppsala University. Students created a blog Uppsala African Reviews where they published reviews of books with a focus on…
A review of Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Sterns book Sexual violence as a weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond, by Nadja Piiroinen (2015).
During the spring term I taught African Studies at Uppsala University. Students created a blog Uppsala African Reviews where they published reviews of books with a focus on…
Introducing New Team Members
Name Tags by EmDashPaperCo on Etsy By Marie-Pierre Renaud I want to introduce you to some of our team members you may not know yet, but who’s work…
Book Review: I See My Representation and I Will Raise You, Identification
By Dan Gardner To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. “In a fictional world where I can use magic…
Queering Representation in Games: A review of Adrienne Shaw’s Gaming at the Edge
By Evan Conaway To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. “Identification is not about a static, linear, measurable connec…
Pixels and Politics: Representation in Video Games
By Christine Tomlinson To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. T. L. Taylor. 2006. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online…
Landmarks: a review
Christopher Tilley, Department of Anthropology, University College London (c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk) Robert Macfarlane Landmarks (2015) London: Hamish Hamilton, 387pp. £20.00 rrp This is the fifth bo…
How to buy glasses online (Part 3): Warby Parker
This is the third part of a multipart review series, How To Buy Glasses Online. Part 3 focuses on Warby Parker (warbyparker.com). If you haven’t read Parts 1…